Jacques de La Fontaine

“ In dividing the profits, the workmen quarrelled so much amongst themselves, that they proposed of their own accord, that I should pay them regular wages, and carry on the business altogether on my own account.
Every thing now seemed to prosper with me. I hired the handsomest shop in Taunton, opposite the cross in the Market place, and I was able to furnish it with so great a variety, that it was always filled with customers; and my wife and two boys to assist her, found ample employment. I manufactured stuffs in the upper part of the house which were sold below at a profit. ”

“ He once told one of his fellow workmen, that he had been often strongly tempted to run away with the money, and then he would say to himself. “What! steal from a man who has been so invariably kind to me, and who places so much confidence in me! ”