• This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69

  Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist 1670-1733
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1. good-breeding
2. fashionable
3. selfishness
4. concealing
5. dexterity
6. others

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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity. by : Bernard Mandeville

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