Words for the Wise

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Title: Words for the Wise
Author: T.S. Arthur
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WORDS FOR THE WISE.
BY T. S. ARTHUR.
PHILADELPHIA:
1851.

PREFACE.

THE title of this book--"WORDS FOR THE WISE"--is too comprehensive to need explanation. May the lessons it teaches be "sufficient" as warnings, incentives and examples, to hundreds and thousands who read them.

CONTENTS.

THE POOR DEBTOR THE SUNDAY CHRISTIAN I KNEW HOW IT WOULD BE JACOB JONES; OR, THE MAN WHO COULDN'T GET ALONG IN THE WORLD STARTING A NEWSPAPER. AN EXPERIENCE OF MR. JONES THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS JUST GOING TO DO IT MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH LET HER POUT IT OUT A FINE, GENEROUS FELLOW TAKING IT FOR GRANTED LOVE AND LAW

WORDS FOR THE WISE.
THE POOR DEBTOR.

"THERE is one honest man in the world, I am happy to say," remarked a rich merchant, named Petron, to a friend who happened to call in upon him.
"Is there, indeed! I am glad to find you have made a discovery of the fact. Who is the individual entitled to the honourable distinction?"
"You know Moale, the tailor?"
"Yes. Poor fellow! he's been under the weather for a long time."
"I know. But he's an honest man for all that."
"I never doubted his being honest, Mr. Petron."
"I have reason to know that he is. But I once thought differently. When he was broken up in business some years ago, he owed me a little bill, which I tried to get out of him as hard as any one ever did try for his own. But I dunned and dunned him until weary, and then, giving him up as a bad case, passed the trifle that he owed me to account of profit and loss. He has crossed my path a few times since; but, as I didn't feel toward him as I could wish to feel toward all men, I treated him with marked coldness. I am sorry for having done so, for it now appears that I judged him too severely. This morning he called in of his own free will, and paid me down the old account. He didn't say any thing about interest, nor did I, though I am entitled to, and ought to have received it. But, as long as he came forward of his own accord and settled his bill, after I had given up all hope of ever receiving it, I thought I might afford to be a little generous and not say any thing about the interest; and so I gave him a receipt in full. Didn't I do right?"
"In what respect?" asked the friend.
"In forgiving him the interest, which I might have claimed as