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of the reverse, there are gradations as to how far 

 we diverge from the line, be it the right or wrong, 

 and in accordance with this we shall generally 

 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 per- 

 haps impertinent, the paying Avith a niggard one 

 is infinitely w^orse ; 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 was 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 from 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 wdio from 

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