Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.