Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (34)

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417 A mouse confined in a wire trap eats its baited cheese with much compo sure and like the man of pleasure is un mindful of its future destiny 418 An old bachelor who has induced his brother to marry and afterwards mar ries himself is bound in honour to divide his fortune with his brother 419 A young woman who knows the management of a kitchen becomes in sensibly a practical chymist an architect an experimental philosopher and ulti mately a good wife 420 When you have squandered away your fortune in extravagance you will find some difficulty to induce your friends to give you a great coat to keep you from the rain 421 Riding the managed horse and fencing are noble and manly exereises They give an elevation of mind that only belongs to a polished gentleman
422 It is an easy matter to get money but the difficulty lies in knowing how to keep it 423 It is ungenerous to whisper away a man's reputation as you leave him with out a defence 424 With some men contradiction only serves to confirm them in their opinions e 425 There are men who will give ten pounds for a copper coin and yet will grudge sixpence for a basin of soup 426 Never attempt to execute any thing in public unless you can perform it well in private 427 If you have a numerous family of sons and daughters take care to bring them up with a strong affection to each other If your eldest son gets into a good line he will draw up his younger brothers after him And your eldest

daughter if she marries well will do the same by her younger sisters 77

 

This is the thirty-fourth 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 thirty-three 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)

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Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (15)

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (16)

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