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To Speak, or Not to Speak: A Gentleman’s Rules for Holding the Tongue From an 1890s Manual on Manners

The Crimes of the Tongue THE second most deadly instrument of destruction is the dynamite gun,—the first is the human tongue. The gun merely kills bodies; the tongue kills reputations ...

April 2, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
The Gentleman’s Guide to Self-Mastery From an 1890s Manual on Cultivating Self-Control, Character

The Kingship of Self-Control MAN has two creators,—his God and himself. His first creator furnishes him the raw material ...

March 23, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Rules for How to Be a ‘Gentleman’ From an 1875 Guidebook, the Final Chapter: Miscellaneous

Here is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. Hartley, ...

March 3, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Vintage Advice for Gentleman: Etiquette for the Date, Hanging With the Boys, or Just Chillin’ Alone

Here is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. Hartley, ...

February 18, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Master the Dancefloor: A Gentleman’s Guide to Ballroom Etiquette—From a Classic Manual on Manners

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

January 15, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Conduct a Conversation Like a Gentleman—From a Manual on Etiquette and Politeness From 1875

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

December 17, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
A Guide to Gentlemanly Manners While Travelling Based on an Etiquette Manual From the 1880S

THERE is nothing that tests the natural politeness of men and women so thoroughly as traveling. We all desire ...

December 11, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
A Gentleman’s Instruction Manual From the 1880s Explains How to Have Manners, ‘General Rules of Conduct’

IN society, everybody should receive equal attention, the young as well as the old. A high authority says, "If ...

May 26, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Does the Word ‘Gentleman’ Still Mean Anything Today? Here’s Why It Should

I was speaking to the freshman class at Wabash College, a small all-male college in Crawfordsville, Indiana. "What ...

May 25, 2022BY Leonard Sax
A Class All Their Own: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Old School

Back in high school, I spent a summer working as an orderly in the recovery and operating rooms ...

January 19, 2022BY Jeff Minick