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Gentleman's Magazine 1838 part 2 p.378
about the mark; and care should be taken in trampling over gardens, entering houses, &c. which you will sometimes find it advisable to do, by the help either of money or civility, or both, to avoid hurting the feelings of the people, and thereby doing wrong yourself and injuring the next visitor also. Do as you would be done by, is not less applicable to ruin-hunting than to matters of higher importance.
An intelligent man who is employed upon the antiquities of a county, is generally a welcome guest at the tables of country gentlemen. In such a case do not ride you hobby against your host; he probably will turn the conversation upon your subjects, but you should not bore him; give what information you can, but modestly; not shewing that you hold his theorires or notions on the subject to be erroneous, but stating your own views quietly, by way of query, and with the deference due to his superior local knowledge.
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