1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
The person should be accurately clean; the teeth, hands, and nails, should be particularly so: a dirty mouth has real ill consequences to the owner ; for it infallibly causes the decay, as well as the intolerable pain, of the teeth; and is very offensive, for it will most inevitably stink.
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
The person should be accurately clean; the teeth, hands, and nails, should be particularly so: a dirty mouth has real ill consequences to the owner ; for it infallibly causes the decay, as well as the intolerable pain, of the teeth; and is very offensive, for it will most inevitably stink.
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
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