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~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847

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Has a steamboat acquaintance presumed to converse with you? Here are some socially acceptable ways tell someone to f-off while remaining a perfect gentleperson

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

Six commas in one sentence: this is serious business

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~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847

Holiday gift shopping? May we suggest diamonds and snuff-boxes?

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

TLDR; if a clergyman is tricked by a dinner invitation into entering a home where adults are playing cards, he should be a gentleman and leave immediately. Then - still being a gentleman - he should tell all the host’s friends and neighbors how she tricked him before finally telling her to her face that she is not a lady and he will forever more hold her in contempt.

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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Text: In society never quote. If you get entangled in a dispute with some learned blockhead, you may silence him with a few extemporary quotations. Select the author for whom he has the greated admiration, and give him a passage in the style of that writer, which most pointedly condemns the opinion he supports. If it does not convince him, he will be so stunnded with amazement that you can make your escape, and avoid the unpleasant necessity of knocking him down.

~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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If you are visited by any company whom you wish to drive away forever, or any friends whom you wish to alienate, entertain them by reading to them from your own productions.

~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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Block of text: If you have any defect, so striking and so ridiculous as to procure you a nickname, then indeed there is but one remedy, - recounce society.

~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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Text block reading: That style of language which society pronounces vulgar, and which grammarians call impure, arises less from the use of new and unauthorized words, than from the employment of old words in the wrong senses. For example, the word 'guess', when properly applied, is a good English word; it becomes vulgar only in its misappropriation. Use ita hundred times a-day in its right sense, and you are a genteman; use it once improperly, and you declare yourself a Yankee.

~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847