| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11706 |
| QUOTATION: | A good upbringing means not that you wont spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you wont notice it when someone else does. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904), Russian author, playwright. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Works, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 31, Nauka (1980). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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