“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
“From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.”
Pt. I, l. 132.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
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