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  • 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 de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag