Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (5)

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55 If you are rich be liberal in your expenses 56 A covetous man has generally a spendthrift heir 57 Never write a letter when in a passion 58 A gamester is either a fool or a knave 59 A female gamester generally borrows money on personal security 60 Choose a wife from a watering place where the company live under one roof It is as prudent a measure as buying a horse upon trial 61 A woman who has many lovers often chooses the worst of them for a husband 62 The extent of a woman's modesty may be estimated by her dress

63 Waste not want not is a good motto for a kitchen 64 When you sit down to a luxurious banquet consider how many persons there are in the world who would be glad to scrape the trenchers that come from your table 65 A spendthrist and a graceless son ought to have no father 66 A deaf man who has a scold for his wife qught to thank God for his misfortune 67 To quarrel with your relations is treason against nature 68 Proverbial wisdom teaches more in one hour than a large volume of morality in a season 69 When you plant a wood you are only paying posterity what you borrowed of your ancestors
This is the fifth 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 four posts, 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)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (4) – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

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