2876. Try heartily to please everybody, and you will be pleased yourself; and, besides this, render yourself the most agreeable person in the room.
2877. Should you chance to be thrown into the company of what the man in the farce calls a real live lord, do not interlard your talk with "my lord," and "your lordship." Sir is sufficient, after once addressing him as "my lord," to show that you are acquainted with his rank. Madam is to be used to a lady of title, to whom also the previous rule applies.
2878. There are many talkers, but few who know how to converse agreeably.
2879. Speak distinctly, neither too rapidly nor too slowly.
2880. Accommodate the pitch of your voice to the hearing of the person with whom you are conversing.