human
I would give a thousand pounds for your good name.
gpt
Why?
human
Because I could make ten thousand by it,
gpt
I must request you to teach him a favorite maxim of the family whose name you have given him--_Always endeavor to be really what you would wish to appear_. This maxim, as my father informed me, was carefully and humbly practiced by _his_ father, whose sincerity, as a plain and honest man, thereby became the principal feature of his character, both in public and private life. Every man who respects himself, and values the respect of others, will carry out the maxim in act--doing honestly what he purposes to do--putting the highest character into his work, scrimping nothing, but priding himself upon his integrity and conscientiousness. Once Cromwell said to Bernard--a clever but somewhat unscrupulous lawyer,
human
I understand that you have lately been vastly wary in your conduct; do not be too confident of this: subtlety may deceive you, integrity never will.