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Artificial Manners.
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How many people are like whitened ſepulchres, and careful only about appearances! yet if we are too anxious to gain the approbation of the world, we muſt often forfeit our own.
How bewitching is that humble ſoftneſs of manners which humility gives birth to, and how faint are the imitations of affectation! That gentleneſs of behaviour, which makes us courteous to all, and that benevolence, which makes us loth to offend any, and ſtudious to pleaſe every creature, is ſometimes copied by the polite; but how aukward is the copy! The warmeſt profeſſions of regard are proſ-tituted
