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QUOTATION:A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
ATTRIBUTION:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Works, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 31, “Nauka” (1980).
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