Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (19)

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237 From the known laws of chance some men must be more fortunate than others For this we need not call in the intervention of Providence 238 Gold can furnish every earthly comfort a contented mind excepted 239 Things to come and things past are in the eye of God the same 240 The greatest comfort of man is an hereafter It guides him cheerly through a turbulent world 241 Gossiping and lying are twin sisters 242 To be ever of the same opinion with the last man you converse with shows you to be a man of no judgment i 243 Guard yourself against too much prosperity 244 Liars are the dregs of mankind

245 There are limits beyond which the understanding of man is incapable of being extended 246 Though his own cup may not be filled a good man rejoices to see his neighbour's run over 247 The Address to Ladies in Cu lina is the most faithful glass they can look into 248 A parrot and a prattling woman give utterance to words the meaning of which neither of them understand 249 There is no time so ill spent as in dancing attendance after a great man 250 Envy though a detestable passion when it stands alone sometimes acts as a stimulus towards making us more indus trious 251 Dangers that are often felt be come familiar Who otherwise would

continue to go to sea or take up his abode on the side of a burning moun tain

 

This is the nineteenth 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 sixteen 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) 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (15)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (16)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (17)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (18)

 

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