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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
258
Your
enjoyment
of
a
party
depends
far
less
on
what
you
find
there,
than
on
what
you
carry
with
you.
The
vain,
the
ambitious,
the
designing,
will
be
full
of
anxiety
when
they
go,
and
of
disappointment
when
they
return.
A
short
triumph
will
be
followed
by
a
deep
mortification,
and
the
selfishness
of
their
aims
defeats
itself.
If
you
go
to
see,
and
to
hear,
and
to
make
the
best
of
whatever
occurs,
with
a
disposition
to
admire
all
that
is
beautiful,
and
to
sympathize
in
the
pleasures
of
others,
you
can
hardly
fail
to
spend
the
time
pleasantly.
The
less
you
think
of
yourself
and
your
claims
to
attention,
the
better.
If
you
are
much
attended
to,
receive
it
modestly,
and
consider
it
as
a
happy
accident;
if
you
are
little
noticed,
use
your
leisure
in
observing
others.
It
were
unjust
and
ungrateful
to
conceive
that
the
amusements
of
life
are
altogether
forbidden
by
its
beneficent
Author.
They
serve,
on
the
contrary,
important
purposes
in
the
economy
of
human
life,
and
are
destined
to
produce
important
effects
both
upon
our
happiness
and
character.
They
are,
in
the
first
place,
in
the
language
of
the
Psalmist,
"the
wells
of
the
desert;"
the
kind
resting-places
in
which
toil
may
relax,
in
which
the
weary
spirit
may
recover
its
tone,
and
where
the
desponding
mind
may
resume
its
strength
and
its
hopes.
It
is
not,
therefore,
the
use
of
the
innocent
amusements
of
life
which
is
dangerous,
but
the
abuse
of
them;
it
is
not
when
they
are
occasionally,
but
when
they
are
constantly
pursued;
and
when,
from
being
an
occasional
indulgence,
it
becomes
an
habitual
desire.
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