Famous quotes containing the words important, breeding and/or colony:
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Good breeding ... differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)