Refinement.Thosewho rail at poetry and refinement as superfluous ingredients in every day happiness, little know what main props they thus seek to undermine. These will abide when even principles wave.Manly delicacyis as necessary in family life as manly rectitude; andwomanly tactas womanly virtue. There is as much happiness wrecked from the absence of the one, as of the other, and perhaps more. Those who neglect thevarnishesof life, commit an insidious sin towards themselves: and these lie in themind, and not in thepurse.
Refinement.Thosewho rail at poetry and refinement as superfluous ingredients in every day happiness, little know what main props they thus seek to undermine. These will abide when even principles wave.Manly delicacyis as necessary in family life as manly rectitude; andwomanly tactas womanly virtue. There is as much happiness wrecked from the absence of the one, as of the other, and perhaps more. Those who neglect thevarnishesof life, commit an insidious sin towards themselves: and these lie in themind, and not in thepurse.
Thosewho rail at poetry and refinement as superfluous ingredients in every day happiness, little know what main props they thus seek to undermine. These will abide when even principles wave.Manly delicacyis as necessary in family life as manly rectitude; andwomanly tactas womanly virtue. There is as much happiness wrecked from the absence of the one, as of the other, and perhaps more. Those who neglect thevarnishesof life, commit an insidious sin towards themselves: and these lie in themind, and not in thepurse.