"Mannerliness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the glib faculty of sliding over a tale, but his words come squeamishly out of his mouth, and the laughter commonly before the jest. He names this word college too often, and his discourse beats too much on the university. The perplexity of mannerliness will not let him feed, and he is sharp set at an argument when he should cut his meat. He is discarded for a gamester at all games but one and thirty,[41] and at tables he reaches not beyond doublets. ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle |
