"“Looks like everybody in [[Jackson County]] got rich but me,” [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]] would write to his wife, Bess. **“I’m glad I can sleep well even if it is a hardship on you and Margie for me to be so damn poor.”** To his daughter, **he would admit he was a financial failure, but say with pride that he had tried to leave her “something that (as Mr. Shakespeare says) cannot be stolen— an honorable reputation and a good name.”**" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[reputation]], [[parenting]], [[character]], [[honesty]], [[personal-values]], [[incentives]], [[intrinsic-motivation]] **Source** -- [[202409180127 - B - Right Thing, Right Now]]