“Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.”

— Anton Chekhov , book The House with the Mezzanine

The House with the Mezzanine (1896)

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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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