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Show SECRET OF GOOD MANNERS. Chiefly a Combination of Good Sens end Good Nature. A friend of yours nnd mlno has vory Justly defined good breeding to be "tho result of much good senso, , good nature and n little self-denial for tho sako of others, and with a view to obtain tho samo Indulgence from them." Taking this for granted as I think it cannot bo disputed It la astonishing to mo that anybody who has good senso and good naturo can j essentially fnll in good breeding. As J to tho modes of it, indeed, thoy vary-according vary-according to persons, places and clr- cumstanccs nnd are only acquired by observation and experience, but tho i stibstaiico of it is overywhero and J eternally tho same. Good manners i nro to part lar "societies what good morals aro to society in general their cement nnd security. And as laws aro enacted to enforco good morals or at least to prevent the 111 offects of bad ones, so thoro aro contain con-tain rules of civility, universally implied im-plied and received to enforco good manners and punish bad ones. Chesterfield |