Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (9)

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111 Learn to dance well If you have not a head your heels may make your fortune 112 In your passage through life take truth and sincerity for your companions If you prefer dissimulation you will end your journey in disgrace 113 Those are the best critics who have the most judgment and the least ill nature 114 It is the force of education that enables one man to live where another would starve 115 If you travel into foreign parts bring back the virtues of other countries and leave your own follies behind
116 Those who lead a life of dissipa tion and pleasure should consider that the space between death and the card table is hardly discernible 117 If you wish to be comfortable marry at thirty a woman of twenty one You will not then be in danger of your children treading too closely upon your heels 118 When your servants find out that you are ignorant of their duty you may be assured that the family business will be ill done 119 The itch for writing is a disease for which there is no remedy 120 Set your watch every morning by a good clock and you will find a bad watch to go nearly as well as a good one 121 There is no vice more easily learnt than drunkenness

This is the ninth 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 Culture and Society: Men and Manners (2) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (3) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (4) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (5) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (6) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (7)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (8) 

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