“You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Clio's Protest (1819).
“Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.”
— Ernest Hemingway, book A Moveable Feast
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 12
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“Talk about it as much as you like,—one's breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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