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It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
Edith Wharton
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Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.


— Charles L. Aarons, Hatch v. Lewinsky et al. (19 April 1945), p. 9

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There is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

— 1748  Letter to his son, 9 Mar.

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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield

— March 9, 1748.

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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.


— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in a letter to his son, (9 March 1748)

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