Polished Brass
Polished Brass
who wrote " Polished brass is better than rough Gold' in a letter to his Son?
This lesson was prescribed in a literature book for Class 12 in India.
Perhaps the writer is some one like H.G.Wales
- Earl of Chesterfield -, “Letters to His Son on the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman,” an etiquette book popular in 18th Century America
"I am most affected to letters upon your subject; the one from Madame St. Germain, and the other from Monsieur Pampigne; they both give so good an account of you...They write that you are not only decorous, but tolerably well-bred, and that the English crust of awkward bashfulness, shyness, and roughness (of which , by the bye, you had your share) is pretty well rubbed off. I am most heartily glad of it, for, as I have often told you, those lesser talents, of an engaging, insinuating manner, an easy good breeding, a genteel behavior and address, are of infinitely more advantage than they are generally thought to be...Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value, but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster; ***and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold"***
Hope this helps.
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