That may serve you in your business, but you can't talk to me like that.

I am not a workingman, cap in hand, asking you to increase my wages or to protect me from the machine at which I work.

You cannot be dogmatic with truth when you deal with me.

Save that for dealing with your wage-slaves.

They will not dare reply to you because you hold their bread and butter, their lives, in your hands.
"As for this return to nature that you say you learned at college before I was born, permit me to point out that on the face of it you cannot have learned anything since.