Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only jok...e. Every woman knows that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By all those, who are not much acquainted with him, he was considered infinitely below his level; he put no price upon himself, an...d consequently went at an undervalue; for the world is complaisant or dupe enough, to give every man the price he sets upon himself, provided it be not insolently and overbearingly demanded. It turns upon the manner of asking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Those... who violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, as... it is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations to the work of the world, ought to... do it himself, and not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket, or his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »