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.