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Updated: May 21, 2025

"In private, watch your thoughts; in your family, watch your temper; in society, watch your tongue." "To arrive at the heart of true courtesy," says a modern writer, "separate the onld English titles for the well-bred; they were the gentle-man and gentle-woman." It is better to live alone than in low company. If you cannot keep good company, keep none.

Sarah Annie Frost - Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society: A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages: in America, containing plain and reliable directions for: deportment in every situation in life.