Employ others to do what you can't do, and it must be done; but never to do anything you can do better for yourselves! Agent! The word is derived from a Latin word 'agere,' to do; and agents act up to their etymology, for they invariably DO the nincompoop that employs them, or deals with them, in any mortal way.

I'd have got you that beastly little Bijou for ninety pounds a year." Uncle Philip went away crusty, leaving the young couple finely mortified and discouraged.
That did not last very long.

Christopher noted the experience and Uncle Phil's wisdom in his diary, and then took his wife on his knee, and comforted her, and said, "Never mind; experience is worth money, and it always has to be bought.

Those who cheat us will die poorer than we shall, if we are honest and economical.

I have observed that people are seldom ruined by the vices of others; these may hurt them, of course; but it is only their own faults and follies that can destroy them." "Ah! Christie," said Rosa, "you are a man! Oh, the comfort of being married to A MAN.