Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (7)

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35 Eating is the spur to industry Could we live without eating all the world would be idle 86 In the morning think on what you are to do in the day and at night think on what you have done 87 If you marry ill do not repent of it as repentance will obtain you no for giveness 88 If you have lost your love and think that there is not such another in the world consider that there is as good a fish in the sea as ever was taken out of it 89 It is a delicious sensation when we can catch the mind just dropping into sleep 90 You will be as well amused with the clack of a mill as with a woman who is a great talker without judgment 91 Arrogance is a weed that grows on a dunghill
92 A woman should never play at cards in public till she has learnt it in private 93 A bribe delicately offered under the specious appearance of a reward is generally successful So the serpent tempted Eve 94 Ladies who have no pockets make it a good excuse for borrowing trifles of their friends They never pay for the same reason that they borrow 95 A professional man who allows the world to get before him no longer belongs to it 96 If you are of an indolent temper breakfast upon cold pig 97 A man who attempts to gain the affections of a young woman without in tending to marry her should consider that he is deliberately acting the part of a villain

This is the seventh 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 six 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)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (5) – Regency Reader (regrom.com)

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