"You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. You shall
have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin..." (Lev. 19:35-36)
Once I was in a store when a farmer came in to get some plow-points. He had just moved into the
settlement, and it was the first or second time he had been to town. He came into the store and
asked the proprietor, "Are these plow-points tempered enough?" "No," said he, "I think no; I tried
some of them and they are soft."
When the farmer had gone out I said to the proprietor, "Why didn't you tell that man that the
plow-points were well-tempered and hard, and would do the work he required of them? Why,
you told him the naked truth and missed a sale; you're a strange man."
But as long as I stayed in that community, that man had a customer who would spend his last dollar with him. (From Famous Stories of Sam Jones, by George R. Stewart, p. 101)