Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (4)

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40 If you lend a man a small sum be sure to ask him for it before he forgets it 41 Idleness travels very leisurely and poverty soon overtakes her 42 To be unkind to the brute creation shows yourself to be a brute 43 Do not look down upon your neighbour because he is not so rich as yourself 44 After we have eat a hearty meal we think no man is hungry 45 Nothing is so endearing as being courteous to our inferiors 46 If you have a family and not very aMuent remember that a pin a day is a groat a year 1 47 Self sufficient men and women are generally as ignorant as they are ob stinate B 4 MANNERS 15
48 Conscience is our best friend but if once offended is never to be reconciled 49 When you take a journey in a stage coach carry with you a pillow Put your head upon it in a corner of the coach during the night and sit upon it in the day time 50 A gossip has no home 1 51 It is a merciless act to confine an unfortunate and industrious man in a jail ask yourself if it be not revenge 52 Whatever your miseries may be tliere are others more miserable than yourself 53 If you keep a drunken servant insure your house against fire and yourself against the censures of your neighbours 74 A woman who marries a gamester must never expect to have a good night's rest

This is the fourth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) series.  For the first two post, go here:

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (2) – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (3) – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

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