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Just as a prudent motorist will keep to the speed limit, on the inside lane and at safe braking distance from the car in front, indicating as needed and in plenty of time, cheerily giving way should that be the congenial thing to do — so will a sensible merchant perform her contract with a view not just to compliance with its letter but the maintaining her customer’s good grace and favourable regard should her name come into contemplation — which it will only do when the customer’s mind turns to more business. | Just as a prudent motorist will keep to the speed limit, on the inside lane and at safe braking distance from the car in front, indicating as needed and in plenty of time, cheerily giving way should that be the congenial thing to do — so will a sensible merchant perform her contract with a view not just to compliance with its letter but the maintaining her customer’s good grace and favourable regard should her name come into contemplation — which it will only do when the customer’s mind turns to more business. | ||
You have heard the JC say it often before, and it is true, if trite: the future is an unknown place. This is a ''good'' thing: if it were not, there would be no | You have heard the JC say it often before, and it is true, if trite: the future is an unknown place. This is a ''good'' thing: if it were not, there would be no risks to run nor rewards to reap. The fears that plague a merchant’s mind when she enters a bargain may be far removed from the actualities that beset her ultimate enjoyment of it. The fears that plague her advisors will be rooted in the ''past'', that place that place of consoling clarity for those who navigate by rear-view mirror and have not the stomach for the unknown. | ||
(Incidentally, if you ''did'' want to be part of a motorway pileup, then steering by reference to what appears in your wing-mirrors is the way to go about it.) | |||
Yet, when their opinions are sought, how easily [[legal eagle]]s fall into the mindset of ''remedies''. | Yet, when their opinions are sought, how easily [[legal eagle]]s fall into the mindset of ''remedies''. | ||