Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (36)

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440 The disgrace that is affixed to the memory of a bad man often acts as a stimulus to the virtues of a good one 441 If you mean your son for your own line of business put him early to it before he contracts a taste for pleasure 442 The earth is ever indulgent to us She supplies all our natural and artificial wants and when life is over she kindly hides our remains in her bosom 443 A good fire and a few cheerful friends shorten the gloomy nights of No vember 444 A man who goes in quest of dis tant countries forgets that he has left a better home than any he can find 445 Young men of lively parts and acute understandings when they enter upon the field of controversy are some times so proud of their polemic skill as to engage indiscriminately on any side
of the question in debate This is a dan gerous practice as it has a tendency to create an indifference to moral and reli gious truth 446 It is ungenerous in old age to quarrel with the frolicksomeness of youth 447 It is indecent in a magistrate to use harsh language to the culprit that stands before him 448 Perhaps there is as much water in the ocean as there was at the creation The sun draws from the sea all the fresh water that afterwards descends in rain and after the earth has received its por tion the rivers carry back the remainder On this simple harmony depends the ex istence of all created things 449 It is said that in consequence of the food daily taken in all parts of the human body are completely renewed every seven years so that if a man arrives at 49 he is seven times a different man

This is the thirty-sixth 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-five  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) 

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