Excerpt from Good Form: Manners Good and Bad at Home and in Society, With Remarks Upon the Value of Tact, Courtesy, and Conventionality The more manner the less manners, is a statement entitled to our consideration. A man of high breed ing does not emphasize the fact that he has enjoyed exceptional advantages or position. On the contrary, he simply follows the codified laws, or usages of the best society, neither exceeding nor slighting them. Carlyle, that rebel against all littleness, spoke for all mankind when he said, Good-breeding differs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.