gratified. They thrust themselves into all conversations,
indulge in continual anecdotes, which are varied only by dull
disquisitions, listen to others with impatience and
heedlessness, and are angry that they seem to be attending to
themselves. Such men go through scenes of pleasure, enjoying
nothing. They are equally disagreeable to themselves and
others. Young men should, therefore, content themselves with
being natural. Let them present themselves with a modest
assurance: let them observe, hear, and examine, and before
long they will rival their models.

The conversation of those women who are not the most lavishly
supplied with personal beauty, will be of the most advantage
to the young aspirant. Such persons have cultivated their
manners and conversation more than those who can rely upon
their natural endowments. The absence of pride and pretension
has improved their good nature and their affability. They are
not too much occupied in contemplating their own charms, to
be disposed to indulge in gentle criticism on others. One
acquires from them an elegance in one's manners as well as
one's expressions. Their kindness pardons every error, and to
instruct or reprove, their acts are so delicate that the
lesson which they give, always without offending, is sure to
be profitable, though it may be often unperceived.

Women observe all the delicacies of propriety in manners, and
all the shades of impropriety, much better than men; not only
because they attend to them earlier and longer, but because
their perceptions are more refined than those of the other
sex, who are habitually employed about greater things. Women