A Gentleman

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Maurice Francis Egan. A Gentleman

A Gentleman

Table of Contents

Preface

I. The Need of Good Manners

II. Rules of Etiquette

III. What Makes a Gentleman

IV. What Does Not Make a Gentleman

V. How to Express One’s Thoughts

VI. Letter-writing

VII. What to Read

VIII. The Home Book-shelf

IX. Of Shakspere

X. Of Talk, Work, and Amusement

XI. The Little Joys of Life

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Maurice Francis Egan

Published by Good Press, 2021

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A young man’s fate in life may be decided by a badly-written letter or a well-written one, by a rough gesture, by an oath or an unclean phrase uttered when he thinks no one is listening. But let us remember that there is always some one looking or hearing; for, and this is an axiom, there are no secrets in life.

Emerson says, writing of “Behavior:” “Nature tells every secret over. Yes, but in man she tells it all the time, by form, attitude, gesture, mien, face and parts of the face, and by the whole action of the machine. The visible carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners. What are they but thought entering the hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior?”

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