January 3, 2009

THE ENGRAVING OF VISITING CARDS FOR MEN


It is not good form to use _merely honorary titles_ on visiting-cards. In most cases, a man should lay aside all pretension to special office or rank, and appear in society simply as "Mr. John Brown," to take his chances in the social world strictly on his own merits; assured that if he has any merit, other people will discover it without an ostentatious reminder of it in the shape of a pompous visiting-card.

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