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tions; and artizans who, greedy of gain, and with a view to increase their own profits, wish for a scarcity of the necessary articles for food and raiment, are all offenders against this commandment. They, too, who, envious of the praise and glory won by the achievements of others, strive to tarnish, in some degree, their fame, sin against this commandment; particularly if they themselves are worthless characters, persons of no estimation in society: fame and glory are the meed of virtue and industry, not of indolence and inexertion.