Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (41)

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CW: Racist language.

 

496 To morrow is the scholar of to day 497 A wise man will moralize with a straw 498 When you wish to be comfort able give a neat dinner to a small party When you wish to be uncomfortable give a great dinner to a large party 499 Good principles instilled into a young person though they may suffer an interruption for a considerable length of time yet in the end seldom fail to return and sometimes with redoubled vigour 500 Though Diana was a huntress she was never known like our modern dames to ride on horseback 501 Many different religions in a country make dreadful chasms in society 502 Gold properly applied is irre sistible
1 503 Truth lies at the bottom of a well and but few people venture to fetch her up 504 A broken constitution in the hands of a skilful physician may as easily be propped up as an old house or a hay stack 505 The negroes say that the devil is white we say that he is black Leave this sub judice as no man has ever seen him A 506 A widow with an immense join ture being asked why she did not marry again answered in the words of Cato's daughter because she could not find a man that loved her better than her fortune 507 It is uncharitable to attribute every calamity that befalls a man to a judgment of God for the commission of some immoral act His judgments must ever remain to us unknown

This is the forty-first 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 forty 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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