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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.


Fanny Kemble

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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
FANNY KEMBLE Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own t...
FANNY KEMBLE Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglect...
FANNY KEMBLE In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretche...
FANNY KEMBLE I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill...
FANNY KEMBLE The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous ...
FANNY KEMBLE The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some deg...
FANNY KEMBLE But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free lab...
FANNY KEMBLE The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful t...
FANNY KEMBLE The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
FANNY KEMBLE A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these ...
FANNY KEMBLE I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such...
FANNY KEMBLE I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and...
FANNY KEMBLE I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
FANNY KEMBLE Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The great seal of truth is simplicity.
HERMAN BOERHAAVE There is a great beauty in simplicity.
MIRRA ALFASSA Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. I have no talent for certainty.
JANE AUSTEN A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The society of women is the element of good manners.
JONATHAN S. HAAS The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
PAUL RAND Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.
BUDDY VALASTRO Tabor saved Colorado's fiscal fanny.
JON CALDARA Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of o...
THOMAS CARLYLE Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
BILLY GIBBONS Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which ...
DAVID GROSS There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his gre...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLE The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY It's great news ... it's a key element of bringing swimming back to Charles.
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN He's not an easy guy to describe simply, but he was a guy of great simplicity.
GEORGE HEIDEKAT The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is alwa...
JEAN COCTEAU The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is alwa...
JEAN COCTEAU Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
VIOLET BONHAM CARTER There is a great fear that unstable states and post-war societies provide an ideal breeding ground f...
ALBRECHT SCHNABEL Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Simplicity is a state of mind.
CHARLES WAGNER Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
PAUL JOHNSON Chest hair is back, like fanny packs and aviators. I want it to grow.
JONAH ENBAR The key to a good life is to keep it simple, yet creating simplicity is such a complex issue.
MASTER JIN KWON The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is ...
JEAN COCTEAU Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that...
JAMES F. COOPER Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER There's definitely an element of fatal attraction here. I think that's great; that's a compliment,
FRIENDS The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON The cattle-breeding business has been very good the past several years.
BOB DANNER Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
ANN VOSKAMP They don't fit in your pocket, you have to wear a fanny pack.
BRYCE COMPTON Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity o...
HERBERT HOOVER Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is some...
JONATHAN IVE I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
PAUL JOHNSON We got four rabbits and went to open show. Then we started breeding, breeding and breeding.
JACKIE PECOR Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
DOUG HORTON The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
DOUGLAS HORTON Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATO An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
JOHN BEVERE If you sell simplicity and you sell a lot of it, then you're in pretty good shape.
CHRISTOPHER CHUTE Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the o...
MARK TWAIN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
BRADLEY B. DALINA Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure ...
LONGFELLOW If your needs are little, you are rich enough.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the o...
MARK TWAIN Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the ...
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the ...
MARK TWAIN The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity...
EMILY POST The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the...
MARK TWAIN Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
BIDPAI (PILPAY) People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their kn...
VAN WYCK BROOKS Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
MICHEL FABER Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Simplicity is the glory of expression.
WALT WHITMAN Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
JESSIE SAMPTER Simplicity is the glory of expression
WALT WHITMAN Simplicity is the friend of execution
SESAN KAREEM Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, i...
FREDERIC CHOPIN Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes,...
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