O reputation! dearer far than life.
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.