Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (30)

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374 When a man dies by the use of foxglove henbane aconite or arsenic the Coroner's verdict should be died by the visitation of the doctor 375 Keep company with learned men and you will have less occasion for much reading 376 It seldom happens that a man changes his religion from conviction 377 Marrying a man you dislike in hopes of loving him afterwards is like going to sea in a storm in hopes of fair weather 378 When you mean to write a book first exhaust your own genius then see what others have said on the subject 379 If you drive a pair of horses do not envy the man who drives six He lives at six times the expense that you do and has six times the number of plagues that you have

380 When you talk to an insane man never differ from him in opinion If you do it will be difficult to say which is the most insane 381 Much prudence is required to enable a family of small fortune to live in what is called a genteel neighbour hood If you allow night caps to be brought into your house you will soon be ruined 382 The expense incurred at our uni versities half ruins a young man of smalk fortune before he can take a degree and when he has got it he too often leaves his college with a portion of learning not worth a fourth of the money he has paid for it 383 A fool will sometimes discover the folly of a wise man and still be a fool 984 It is helt indelicate to pare an apple for any one excepting for a child

This is the thirtieth post in our Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) series.  For the first twenty-nine 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)

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