1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon ; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel ; therefore pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage .
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon ; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel ; therefore pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage .
Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners... (1813). United Kingdom: J. Walker.
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