But what is a guilty person's complaint against an unreliable procedure? That it is too likely to mispunish him?

Flunky opens the door, his face wreathed in a Uriah-Heepish smile of servility.

A nice bout of alcoholism will clear that right up for you. Booze makes / >you popular and heals all wounds! / This sounds like awfully good advice, but I'm still frightened, seeing as how I'm a neophyte in the ways of drunkardliness. Do you have any suggestions on ways to gently ease myself into the alcoholic lifestyle?

And if it is more characteristic of a friend to do well by another than to be well done by, and to confer benefits is characteristic of the good man and of excellence, and it is nobler to do well by friends than by strangers, the good man will need people to do well by.