It must be a _Diamond_ that cuts a _Diamond_, and there is No Pleasanter
Encounter, then a Tryal of Skill betwixt a Couple of Sharpers to
Overreach One Another. The _Boy_’s beginning so Early, tells us that
there are Cheats by a Natural Propensity of Inclination, as well as by a
Corruption of Manners. It was _Nature_ that taught this _Boy_ to Shark;
not _Discipline_, or _Experience_. And so it was with Two Ladies that
I have known (and Women of Plentiful Fortunes too) they could not for
their Bloods keep themselves Honest of their Fingers, but would still
be _Nimming_ something or other for the very Love of _Thieving_. ’Tis
an Unhappy Thing, that the Temperament of the Body should have such an
Influence upon our Minds, according to the Instance of the _Boy_ in This
Fable: For the Morality, or Immorality of the Matter, is not the Whole of
the Case.