55. It is a breach of etiquette to wear an air of abstraction in society if your mind is really so absorbed that you cannot pay attention to what is going on around you, you had better stay at home. An absent mind is much more frequently a proof of self- conceit than of genius. 56. Eccentricity of any kind is in bad taste. 57. To imitate the manners, voice, attitude, or gestures of great men were a folly almost too absurd to mention if it were not so common. Many persons, from a real or fancied personal resemblance to some celebrity, will ape their manners also, as if mere appearance would make them equally distinguished. 58. It is wiser, if you have met with reverses, to withdraw yourself from society than to have society withdraw from you. 59. It is a breach of etiquette to assume pedantic airs; to talk of the Latin and Greek authors, and quote in those languages. 60. It is a breach of etiquette to make a quotation in a foreign language and then translate it, thereby giving your listeners to understand that you do not consider them as well informed as yourself. 61. Shakespeare says: "To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." 62. It is a breach of etiquette to contradict any one. 63. The man who would suffer himself to speak a word against a woman, or to rail at women generally, deserves a rebuke recently given to a coxcomb at an English dinner-party, who was checked in his loud abuse of the sex by one of the company, who said: "I hope it is the gentleman's own mother and sisters who are referred to, and not ours." 64. If you try to make yourself appear more important than you really are, you run the risk of being considered less so. 65. Marston says: "I, me, and mine, should be bowed out of genteel circles. Egotism adorns no one." 66. It is a breach of etiquette to offer a partner in dancing an ungloved hand. 67. Spitting is as vulgar as it is disgusting. 68. "The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable," says Chesterfield. 69. It is a breach of etiquette to betray an implied or involuntary confidence, even if you have not been bound to secresy. 70. Bishop Beveridge says: "Never speak of a man's virtues before his face, nor of his faults behind his back." 71. "In private, watch your thoughts; in your family, watch your temper; in society, watch your tongue." 72. "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." 73. It is better to live alone than in low company. If you cannot keep good company, keep none. 74. Sterne thus defines courtship: "True courtship consists in a number of quiet, gentlemanly attentions; not so pointed as to alarm, not so vague as to be misunderstood."