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Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Samuel Johnson
Elegance, Manners, Mark
Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.105

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson
Manners, Politeness, Benevolence
Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Samuel Johnson
Friends, Failing, Manners
Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.167

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Samuel Johnson
Courtesy, Manners
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.122

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