58. It is wiser, if you have met with reverses, to withdraw yourself from society than to have society withdraw from you.
59. It is a breach of etiquette to assume pedantic airs; to talk of the Latin and Greek authors, and quote in those languages.
60. It is a breach of etiquette to make a quotation in a foreign language and then translate it, thereby giving your listeners to understand that you do not consider them as well informed as yourself.
61. Shakespeare says:
"To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
62. It is a breach of etiquette to contradict any one.
63. The man who would suffer himself to speak a word against a woman, or to rail at women generally, deserves a rebuke recently given to a coxcomb at an English dinner-party, who was checked in his loud abuse of the sex by one of the company, who said: "I hope it is the gentleman's own mother and sisters who are referred to, and not ours."
64. If you try to make yourself appear more important than you really are, you run the risk of being considered less so.
65. Marston says: "I, me, and mine, should be bowed out of genteel circles. Egotism adorns no one."
66. It is a breach of etiquette to offer a partner in dancing an ungloved hand.
67. Spitting is as vulgar as it is disgusting.