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 To devote one's business hours strictly to business and one's time of recreation to something else.

To pay a good man what his services are worth, and not merely the minimum at which they can be obtained.

To avoid all misrepresentation in a business transaction.

To receive every one courteously, whether rich or poor.

To give a reproof, where necessary, in private.

To remember that a frowning demeanor does not always imply a dignified one by any means.

To hold one's word as sacred as one's bond.

To avoid all transactions that are classed in lump as shady.

To remember that adulation to power and mind as well as in origin.

To be manly at all times.

To remember that ill-gotten gains will turn the downiest couch into a bed of thorns at the hour of death.

To remember that everybody admires a manly man.

It is the Correct Thing: For a citizen to remember that he owes a duty to the community in which he lives.