The gentlemen's book of etiquette

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By CECIL B. HARTLEY

1860
Politeness may be extended to the lowest and meanest, and you will never by thus extending it detract
from your own dignity. A gentleman may and will treat his washerwoman with respect and courtesy, and
his boot-black with pleasant affability, yet preserve perfectly his own position. To really merit the name of a polite,

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Cultivate tact! In society it will be an invaluable aid. Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave, and respectable; tact is all that and more too. It is not a sixth sense, but it is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles-the surmounter of all difficulties-the remover of all obstacles. It is useful in all places, and at all times; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world; it is useful in society, for it shows him his way through the world. Talent is power-tact is skill; talent is weight-tact is momentum; talent knows what to do-tact knows how to do it; talent makes a man respectable-tact will make him respected; talent is wealth-tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of society tact carries against talent ten to one.

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