The Mentor

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Ayres Alfred. The Mentor

PREFATORY NOTE

PERSONAL APPEARANCE

AT THE DINNER-TABLE

IN PUBLIC

CONVERSATION

CALLS AND CARDS

ODDS AND ENDS

WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN?

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To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. – Trublet.

To be welcome in the society of persons of the better sort, who are always persons of culture and refinement, we must ourselves be persons of culture and refinement, i. e., we must know and practise the usages that obtain in refined society, and have some acquaintance with letters and art.

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If you have occasion to help yourself from a dish, or if any one else helps you, move your plate quite close to the dish.

At a dinner served in courses, it is better, as a rule, not to take a second supply of anything. It might delay the dinner.

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