People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.