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428 Be abstemious two days in a week It is a good catholic doctrine but most useful in a country where animal food is abundant 429 Men who are prodigal of their promises are mostly misers of their per formances 430 A gossip can no more keep a secret than she can confine water in a sieve 431 Much allowance should be made for a fretful child but for a fretful man or woman there is no excuse 432 Out of a great number of bare elbows not above one pair in ten ought to make their appearance in public 433 True patriotism does not consist in pecking at the minister of the day 4
434 When you are in doubt about a thing sleep one night upon it and pro bably you will awake with a clear deter mination 435 When you are disposed to be seri ous you will often find your thoughts dis turbed by an invisible power Repel that power with resolution and in time it will trouble you no more 436 When you have seen other coun tries you will then know what value to put upon your own 437 Whatever tends to the preserva tion of the animal itself or of its young is called instinct and is much more cer tain in its operation than what in man is called reason 438 Whichever way you turn there God presents himself 439 A law suit soon lost is often better than a long cause gained
This is the thirty-fifth 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-four  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) 

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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)

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