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Wholesome 19th century etiquette rule (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Source: https://archive.org/details/illustratedbook00deva/page/32/mode/1up

The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by De Valcourt, Robert

Publication date 1866

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Picture is slightly altered and made to look like an unaltered book page, but still I think it represents the source well.

You can see the smudge on the “or” is present in the original too, so we can tell that it was copied from there.

this post was submitted on 29 May 2025

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