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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rable retaliation. I will relatean instance in point. Standing at the counterof a tradesman, while the latter was tellinga customer what a smart trick he hadperpetrated upon some one who had cheatedhim, I was witness to the narration of thedishonorable feat, during which narrationhis eyes sparkled with revengeful delight.He concluded with the triumphant interroga-tory, Didnt I serve him right? Thisseemed as much directed to me as to myfellow-customer, and I felt morally bound to respond, when the fol-lowing colloquy ensued :111 dont think you did. Tradesman.— Well, I do, for he is the biggest scoundrel in thecity; and I always like to get the start of such men. He is alwayslooking out for a smart game of grab. But of whom are dishonorable people to learn lessons of honesty,if every one who is defrauded by them, retaliates when opportunityoffers ? Tradesman.— That is all very nice, but I am not the man to leta good chance slip to get even with the fellow who comes a bigthing on me.
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GODDESS OP JUSTICE. VIOLATING THE MORAL NATURE. 53 s Well, then, you are only confirming the usual opinion of dis-honorable men, that all men are dishonest, and your retaliation onhim will lead him, when opportunity presents, to again retaliate onyou, and so on indefinitely, till death ends the warfare. Perhaps ifyou had reminded him of the chance presented to get even withhim,1 and spurned it as something you could not stoop to, it wouldhave aroused the sleeping sense of honor within him ; but, if not,he could not justify his course of rascality with the reflection thathe was as good as other men, for he would have, for once, at least,met, in a business way, one man who was above both petty re-venge and dishonesty. In my opinion, sir, you missed a golden op-portunity to do a neighbor good.11 The colloquy ended with a muttering response, which was notquite audible, but the tradesman, after all, was only practising apretty well-established commercial code. Even when money isnot an obje

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