He is not well-bred, that cannot bear Ill-Breeding in others.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)
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This is sometimes noted as a restatement of a phrase in the introduction to Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia, (1732), but that reference to "well-bred People" doesn't seem to match the sentiment here at all.

 
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