the diary of a milliner-1867
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Name: the diary of a milliner-1867
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Title: The diary of a milliner (1867)
Author: Belle Otis
Language: angielski
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biography, Social Sciences, General & Miscellaneous Biography, Social Sciences – General & Miscellaneous, Women’s Studies, Social Stratification & Social Classes, Biography – General & Miscellaneous, Social Classes – General & Miscellaneous, Women’s Studies – General & Miscellaneous
Publisher: tbooks
ISBN: 9781848669116
Total pages: 220
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WHEN I went into business I had very correct ideas of integrity in the abstract, and they were onethodically embodied in the theory which I laid out for practice. If they have become modified in the use, it is the result of knowledge acquired by experience.
I intended to make steady, reasonable profits. I had no idea of the fluctuation in prices which might interfere with my purpose. I intended to represent my goods just as they were, and, by that practice, to obtain a reputation for reliability that would command the respect and patronage – patronage certainly, that was the essential point to be gained – of a reasonable class of people.
My theory was a good one. If it was imperfect, charity suggests that, it was like all theories formed without practical knowledge of the subject treated. Ignorance of my own, and the human nature of others under the peculiar conditions of trader and customer, helped to make the theory. Experience very soon remedied that disadvantage.
I tried to manage well the various kinds of human nature with which I came in contact. At least, so to manage them as to enable me to earn the means to pay my honest debts for food and clothing.
How reasonable I have found reasonable people when their purses were the medium of intercourse, my Journal will relate. How reliable I have been able to prove myself, in order to meet the various exigencies presented to my management by the various characters with whom I have dealt, the same Journal will set forth.
It is well to premise that the differences of opinion upon special cases of integrity are as various and numerous as the individual interests that judge them. And because individual instances are so numerous, investigation must be confined to a limited number of circumstances. To become acquainted with every business transaction which has ever taken place between man and man, or woman and woman, and determine its moral merits, would require more time and wisdom than one person can conveniently command.
I do not relate what I have learned about myself and others, through the education of business transactions, supposing that I can work reformation in one or the other party.
I made my notes and observations for my own entertainment: I give them to the public for the same reason, or for any other which my readers may see fit to ascribe to me.
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