SMALLER DUTIES OF LIFE

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more
important than that of not praising where praise is due. Reputation
is one of the prizes which men/women contend for, it produces
more labour and more talent than twice the wealth a country could
ever rear up. It is the coin of genius and it is the imperious duty of
every person to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and
the wisest economy without any reservations.