Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (44)

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532 A man who dares not examine his own conduct will be sure to find some good natured friends ready enough to do it for him 533 Circulating libraries where novels make the principal assortment are the ruin of young people 534 Be cautious in taking an allegory for a matter of fact come from where it will 535 In some countries if your purse be as long as your neck you will never be hanged 36 Our general plan of life should be to guard against accidents which only can be done by foreseeing them 537 Were it not for the intervention of friends women would generously give their fortunes where they bestow their persons
538 A speculator generally speculates for his successor 539 It is observed that those men suc ceed well who leaving their original employment take to another more agree able to their genius Quintin Matsys from a blacksmith at Antwerp became an eminent painter 540 Gratitude for favours received is easily paid and yet how seldom do we see it paid to its full extent 541 As comparative anatomy enlarges the mind it should constitute a part of a gentleman's academical studies It would make a good professorship 542 It is a great consolation for a poor old man to know that he may purchase a pair of spectacles for a shil ling 543 A secret is no where so safe as in your own bosom
This is the forty-fourth 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-three posts:

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners 

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (2) 

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