Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (15)

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186 Such is the inequality of the hu man mind that some men do great and generous actions while they are in the daily practice of doing what is mean and unbecoming 187 It is ruinous for a shop keeper to talk of his losses by theft 188 It is much better to have a bad man for your enemy than for your friend 189 Ostentation is often the handmaid of charity 190 Our wishes make every thing pro bable that we wish for 191 Modesty in a young man with a becoming assurance is the ground work of an accomplished gentleman 192 A Roman emperor did not enjoy the luxuries of an English washer woman She breakfasts upon tea from the East Indies and upon sugar from the West
193 Do not ridicule personal defor mities 194 Let your voice in conversation be neither too high nor too low The first is insolent and overbearing and the other gives the compauy pain in attending to you 195 Good breeding will make you civil to a stranger but it will not allow you to be familiar 196 In a numerous company avoid a long argument 197 A glutton is emphatically said to dig his grave with his teeth 198 As the human face consists only of seven distinguished features the fore head the eyebrows the eyes the nose the lips the cheeks and chin is it not incomprehensible that Providence should make such variations on these seven parts that out of the whole inhabitants of the
world there should not be two faces ex actly alike

This is the fifteenth 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 thirteen posts:

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)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (11)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (12) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (13)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (14) 

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