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Miss Leslie’s Lady’s House-book; a Manual of Domestic Economy, 1850
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Miss Leslie’s Lady’s House-book; a Manual of Domestic Economy, 1850
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The American Ladies and Gentleman’s Manual of Elegance, Fashion, and True Politeness, 1852
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Miss Leslie’s Lady’s House-book; a Manual of Domestic Economy, 1850
…it is rarely necessary to devote more than one day to washing, and another to ironing..
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The Habits of Good Society: a Handbook of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, 1859
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The Habits of Good Society: a Handbook of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, 1859
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The Habits of Good Society: a Handbook of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, 1859
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
Do not buy those books that have absurd and revolting prints of people with gigantic heads and diminutive bodies. Children always dislike them, and so they ought.
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
People who have read but little, travelled but little, and seen but little of the world out of their own immediate circle, and whose intellect is too obtuse to desire any new accession to their own small stock of ideas, are apt to think that nothing can be true unless it has fallen under their own limited experience.
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853