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The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money in quiet; while others cannot take up either a spoon, or an affront, without making such an amazing noise about it.
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money in quiet; while others cannot take up either a spoon, or an affront, without making such an amazing noise about it.
Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Edward Bulwer Lytton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 1277 · printed citation: Bulwer-Lytton
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