GOOD BIRTH

To be born in a good family is a useful qualification. Consistency in thought, word and deed and a quick reaction against anything mean or improper are natural to persons well-born.

A kind of instinctive resistance keeps them front doing anything mean.

Old families though poor and unable to be munificent maintain their standard of right conduct.

They have something to lose though possessed of no wealth, viz., the credit of their families, which keeps them from deceit and impropriety.

Any fault of theirs, however small, is observed by the world and shows out clear even like the spots in the moon.

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