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Breeding Quotes

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 151), 1948.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.455

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.8, Barron's Educational Series

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.154, Clarendon Press

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Martin Gardner (1961). “The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, a new selection”

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.326, OUP Oxford

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.25, Broadway Books