business-contingencies

Updated: June 22, 2025

Now it is just because all business-contingencies cannot be worked into an unvarying form, as regular as the multiplication-table, and as plain to the apprehension of all men, that a vast amount of lying and of dishonesty is imputed, where it does not exist. Merchants are much like other men, wise and unwise, far-sighted and short-sighted, selfish and unselfish, honest and dishonest.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861