“There are bad manners everywhere, but an aristocracy is bad manners organized.”

—  Henry James

The Point of View HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=FrQRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+are+bad+manners+everywhere+but+an+aristocracy+is+bad+manners+organized%22&pg=PA289#v=onepage (1882)

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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