I fell across a very amusing/bizarre phrenology book today, Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (via Public Domain). According to Vaught, you can learn a lot from a person’s character not only from his skulliest skull, but his writing as well.
Anyone who writes this way is subject to flattery. Remember that appropativeness is the center of flattery. It is the only faculty that likes it.
Don’t give yourself away in your writing; particularly your weakness.
It is my goal this week to make the most approbative letters possible! I’d rather be subject to flattery than make an ugly cautious “C”.