Your prize-fighter has some honor in him yet; and so have the
men in the ring round him: they will judge him to lose the match
by foul hitting. But your prize-merchant gains his match by
foul selling, and no one cries out against that. You drive a
gambler out of the gambling-room who loads dice, but you leave a
tradesman in flourishing business who loads scales! For observe,
all dishonest dealing is loading scales. What difference does
it make whether I get short weight, adulterate substance, or
dishonest fabric?--unless that flaw in the substance or fabric
is the worse evil of the two. Give me short measure of food, and
I only lose by you; but give me adulterate food and I die by
you.--JOHN RUSKIN.
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