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Read & copy the quotation
“It does not pay an individual to do anything except what his conscience will approve of every day, and every hour and minute in the day.”
- Source
- Character Building
- Date
- 1902
Meaning of “It does not pay an individual to do…”
Washington makes conscience a recurring test of conduct, asking whether ordinary choices can withstand one’s own moral approval rather than merely outside scrutiny.
Where does it come from?
Character Building, “What Will Pay?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington reports a discussion of honesty in business and uses conscience as a practical test of conduct; the sentence belongs to that address’s argument that dishonest dealing does not pay.
