Success in Society

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Excerpt from Success in Society: A Manual of Good Manners, Social Etiquette, Rules It is quite a mistake to suppose that the customs of society are merely a set of edicts, arbitrarily established by the capricious tyrant Fashion, for the government only of her slavish subjects. Polite conduct is not necessarily more exclusive than correct speaking. The laws of the one are indeed like those of the other, founded upon the usage of the refined few, but there is no more reason why these should enjoy a monopoly of good manners than of good grammar. There are many, however, who seem to think that social ceremonies are so many frivolous affectations, by which the wealthy or fashionable strive to raise themselves to a factitious elevation above others, and they consequently refuse all observance of them with scorn. 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.