The real reason why the name of the boss doesn’t appear on the time-sheet is not because he’s a bigger man than any one else in the place, but because there shouldn’t be any one around to take his time when he gets down and when he leaves.

George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) American journalist, author, magazine editor

Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, ch. 10 (1903)
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