Perfect Etiquette —— Or, How to Behave in Society, a Complete Manual for Ladies and Gentlemen

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ISBN: 9781330269619 出版年：2016 页码：125 Forgotten Books

Civility and good breeding are necessary to success in life. Po liteness never costs anything, and as nothing is ever lost by it, is it not well to cultivate it It is safe to say, that the person pos sessing those virtues, are not only welcome in all society, but they can rest assured that life with them will not be a failure. Good breeding, like charity, not only covers a multitude of faults, but to 'a certain degree supplies the want of some virtues. In every-day life it acts good nature, and often does what good nature will not always do: it keeps both wits and fools within the bounds of decency, which the former are too apt to transgress, and which the latter never know.