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Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? William Shakespeare, Hamlet III i 124, Hamlet to Ophelia
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain, Notebooks 1935
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. George Bernard Shaw