The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

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Excerpt from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite SocietyPoliteness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us, a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice, there can' be no true politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.