“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.”

—  Bernard Mandeville , book The Fable of the Bees

Remark C, p. 69
The Fable of the Bees (1714)

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