Your ShelfYour Projects

NEVER

3%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 7.

Read the full edition

NEVER

Never exaggerate.
Never betray a confidence.
Never leave home with unkind words.
Never laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Never give a present hoping for one in return.
Never speak much of your own performances.
Never fail to be punctual at the time appointed.
Never make yourself the hero of your own story.
Never fail to give a polite answer to a civil question.
Never question a servant or child about family matters.
Never refer to a gift you have made or a favor you have rendered.
Never associate with bad company. Have good company or none.
Never look over the shoulder of another who is reading or writing.
Never appear to notice a scar, deformity, or defect of any one present.
Never arrest the attention of an acquaintance by a touch. Speak to him.
Never punish your child for a fault to which you are addicted yourself.
Never call a new acquaintance by the christian name, unless requested to do so.
Never lend an article you have borrowed, unless you have permission to do so.
Never forget that if you are faithful in a few things, you may be ruler over many.
Never exhibit too great familiarity with a new acquaintance; you may give offense.
Never fail to offer the best and easiest seat in the room to an invalid, an elderly person, or a lady.
Never send your guest, who is accustomed to a warm room, off to a cold, damp spare bed, to sleep.
Never enter a room filled with people without a slight bow to the general company when first entering.
Never accept of favors or hospitalities without rendering an exchange of civilities when opportunity offers.
Never fail to answer an invitation, either personally or by letter, within a week after the invitation is received.
Never borrow money and neglect to pay. If you do, you will soon be known as a person of no business integrity.
Never write to another asking for information, or a favor of any kind, without inclosing a postage stamp for the reply.
Never fail to say kind and encouraging words to those whom you meet in distress. Your kindness may lift them out of their despair.
Never refuse to receive an apology. You may not receive friendship, but courtesy will require, when an apology is offered, that you accept it.
Never examine the cards in the card-basket. While they may be exposed in the drawing-room, you are not expected to turn them over unless invited to do so.