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Show @sgay on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicariCompengation ous virtue, are the tremblings of the balanc of justice through the heart and mind of man q Experienced men of the world know ver well that it is best to pay scot and lot a they go along, and that a man often pay dear for a small frugality. The borrowe runs in his own debt. Has a man gaine anything who has received a hundre fayors and rendered none? Has he gaine by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, o money? There arises on the deed the instan acknowledgment of benefit on the one par and of debt on the other; that is, of superiority and inferiority. The transaction remains in the memory of himself and hi neighbor; and every new transaction alter according to its nature their relation t each other. He may soon come to see tha he had better have broken his own bone than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach and that "the highest price he can pay fo a thing is to ask for it. 2 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |