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«Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off»
Author: William Davenant | Keywords: bred, broadest, narrowest
«By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.»
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
«All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.»
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
«He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others»
«Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.»
«Hence, vain deluding joys, / The brood of Folly without father bred.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: bred, deluding
«For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture»
«He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.»

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