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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