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derive advantage or disadvantage to ourselves and 

 others from our conduct. This is, in nine cases in 

 ten, brought fully to our conviction. As regards 

 servants, be they our own or those of other persons 

 acting for us, though I quite concur in the opinion 

 that paying for services with too lavish a hand 

 only renders those serving idle, arrogant, and 

 perhaps impertinent, the paying with a niggard one 

 is infinitely worse ; particularly so when we have 

 only the conscience of those serving us to depend 

 upon as to the manner in which they do this; and 

 in few cases are we more dependent on this, than 

 where our horses are under the care of the servant 

 of another, or indeed of our own, if we trust 

 wholly to him ; but supposing our horses to be at 

 livery, we will say the master is anxious to do 

 them justice, but we should not do him justice if 

 we did not pay his servants reasonably and libe- 

 rally ; for let him watch as closely as he will, the 

 horses of the niggard will not get the same atten- 

 tion as those of the liberal man ; the former may 

 change his livery stable form Belgrave or Portman 

 Square to Whitechapel or Blackwall, he will find 

 it all the same: and it is very proper it should be 

 so ; men of all sorts have a right to be fairly paid 

 for their attention and labour, and he who from 

 folly and affectation pays too much, and he who 

 from parsimony pays too little, will both suffer in 

 some way for it ; the first by being ridiculed, the 

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