Samuel Appleton, when twenty-eight years old, began the
business of cotton manufacturing. He was incapable of anything
indirect or underhand. He knew but one way of speaking, and
that was to speak the truth. As an evidence of the way in
which he was regarded: when a note purporting to be signed by
him was pronounced by him a forgery, altho no one was able to
distinguish one handwriting from the other, the jury found a
verdict in his favor, because they were quite sure that Mr.
Appleton would not dispute the payment except upon the certainty
of his not making it.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character
Lessons.”
(1648)
=Intelligence=--See KNOWLEDGE VALUES.