Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (42)

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508 It requires great strength of mind to get quit of prejudices instilled into us when children 509 Discriminate between one who is your friend and one who wishes to be thought so 510 Our lives are long enough The age of a patriarch would be protracted misery 511 If horses could speak ostlers would be honest 512 Time is viewed in two different lights The industrious man says that it is too short The idler complains that it is too long 513 In the infancy of Christianity Godfathers and Godmothers were highly proper but it is matter of doubt whether a man can now in the face of the Al mighty declare that he will do what he knows he legally cannot perform
514 If you have trusted your consti tution in the hands of an empiric why not act consistently and send your watch to be mended by a blacksmith 515 If horses had an understanding equal to their strength they would not allow of the drudgery they are put to 516 Reading may make a man learned but it is experience that must make him wise 517 A dull plodding fellow who al ways looks to the main chance is a good man to have for a father 518 A fool who has sense enough to hold his tongue will sometimes pass for a wise man 73 1 519 Law men are not long lived intense thinking wears out their bodies Medical men live longer as they sel dom employ their thoughts beyond their guinea
 

This is the forty-second 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-one 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) 

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