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Show If you deliberately plan to sell to another man something which you know is not worth the price you ask, and you depend on his lack of knowledge knowl-edge concerning it to make it possible possi-ble for you to carry but the deal, you are a thief. Oh, it sounds a little harsh, does it? Anyone making that statement to you you would call him a liar? You hold that an article is worth to another man Just what he is willing to pay for It. Mighty slimsy cover for your dishonesty, dis-honesty, this. If your conscience does not bother -you after you have made a deal in whioh you know that you have wrongfully wrong-fully convinced a man that something you sold him represents what he paid for it, you have a mean, dishonest streak in you. You are taking from that man something some-thing to which you are not entitled. That is what the man does who enters en-ters your house at night and robs yeu. That he gives you nothing in return and has not asked your permission before be-fore he takes it is not an argument on which you may refute the ilate-ment ilate-ment that you are a thief. Every bit that you have taken in excess of the worth of the article you sell makes you a dishonest man. Exchange. |