21. Be not hasty to believe reports to the disadvantage of others.

22. In your apparel be modest, and endeavor to accommodate nature

rather than to procure admiration; keep to the fashions of your equals:

such as are civil and orderly with respect to times and places.

23. Play not the peacock, looking every where about your person to see

if you be well decked, and if your clothes set handsomely.

24. Associate with persons of good character, if you have a regard for

your own; for it is better to be alone, than in bad company.

25. Let your conversation be without malice or envy; and in all cases

of passion, admit reason to govern.

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