Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (11)

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134 A fool can move his fingers as readily as the wisest man living and at the same time can give as good a reason for the performance of the movement 135 In trivial matters second thoughts are always best 136 A judicious bookseller always prevails on some authors to be at the expense of printing their own works It 137 If you wear a wig bathe your head every morning in cold water preserves the memory and effectually prevents dotage 138 Wit is brushwood Judgment is timber the first makes the brightest flame but the other gives the most lasting heat 139 If you make an intentional con cealment of any thing in a court of judi cature it will lie like lead upon your conscience all the days of your life MANNERS 29
140 A civil man with Dr Johnson's learning would make an envied book 1 seller 141 If you marry in haste you will be sure to repent at leisure 142 Mutual forbearance is the best cement between man and wife 143 Not to overlook workmen is leaving them your purse open 144 What maintains one vice would maintain two children 145 She is not a good housewife who is always buying pennyworths 146 Try to be good and you will soon be so 147 Be not envious of another man's worth The sun does not find fault with the morning star for ushering in the day before him
This is the eleventh 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 ten 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) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (9) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (10)

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