“Poverty will not make [a person] worthless—[they] may be worth a great deal more when they are poor than when they were rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a person of no value—a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation…”
from The Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald …I don’t quite agree, of course. No amount of dishonesty turns a person into a “thing.” No person should be thrown out. But. Dishonesty is a force that destroys, both inward and outward. With even a mild exaggeration, we hurt others a little and hurt … Read more
