Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (37)

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450 When you are fearful of yielding to temptation the best way is to fly from it 451 If you have a house to build do not compel your successor to pay for it but do it from the profits of your estate 452 If you have a numerous family of young children your wife must learn the art of staying at home 453 As a false pane of glass should not be employed in the examination of objects neither should characters be examined through the medium of pre judice 454 Hardly any animals but men and rooks are obliged to watch their property 455 Keep your chimneys regularly swept A few sixpences improperly saved may endanger your own house and perhaps that of your neighbour
456 It is well for idle men that they have a variety of pursuits One man hunts the hare another runs after a but terfly and a third climbs a rugged rock to come at a rare plant 457 Before the introduction of tea the ladies spent their afternoons over a cup of good mulled wine and perhaps it would have been well if the practice had continued Hysteries were then but little known 458 Cunning is left handed wisdom but when discovered it changes its name and is called Knavery 459 Anxiety for his patients often disturbs the peace of a conscientious physician and yet there are some phy sicians as unfeeling as butchers and who have no regard for any thing beyond their fees 460 Air and earth fire and water are the four elements that preserve the harmony
mony of the world The two first live together like brother and sister in perfect good humour The other two like man and wife spar a little now and then

This is the thirty-seventh 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-six  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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