Excerpt from Perfect Etiquette: Or, How to Behave in Society, a Complete Manual for Ladies and Gentlemen 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.