Read no Letters, Books, or Papers in Company
but when there is a Necessity for the doing of it you must ask leave:
come not near the Books or Writings of Another
so as to read them unless desired or give your opinion of them unask'd
also look not nigh when another is writing a Letter.
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Be not Tedious in Discourse or in reading
unless you find the Company pleased therewith.
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Undertake not what you cannot Perform
but be Carefull to keep your Promise.
For us, this rule means the following:
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