• Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. steadiness
2. features
3. breeding
4. persons
5. always
6. least

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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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