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On the oft complained tradesperson's difficulty in getting paid by
churches or Trumps:
"A general, for example, uniformed and in the saddle, advancing through
the streets with his staff in the proud wake of his division's massed
walls of bayonets, cannot be imagined as quailing at the glance thrown
at him by his tailor on the sidewalk. Similarly, a man invested with
sacerdotal authority, who baptizes, marries, and buries, who delivers
judgments from the pulpit which may not be questioned in his hearing,
and who receives from all his fellow-men a special deference of manner
and speech, is in the nature of things prone to see the grocer's book
and the butcher's bill through the little end of the telescope." /The
Damnation of Theron Ware/ by Harold Frederic. 1896.Historical
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