Regency Culture and Society: Miscellaneous Maxims

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MISCELLANEOUS MAXIMS Frankness is one of the greatest virtues but it is the least re warded The same generosity which makes us forget the benefits we have conferred will prevent us from forgetting those we have re ceived If men understood their true interests they would frequently take as much pains to avoid being troubled with a great fortune as they do to acquire one Fortune may be justly com pared to a coquette she is engag ing charming seducing sur rounded by a crowd of adorers at the same time her most assiduous followers are commonly the great est dupes of her caprice and levity The Lady’s Magazine, January 1810.

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