{"id":"01KG8AKBB5PK8HQR5NWBK9M63T","cid":"bafkreibkbpagqdxxgsn2wcrcq5imauggy5b3hkb64d7ykrwdgfztf5kddq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9982,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.726Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 4","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":9947,"text":"again, you have none. Now, what I would ask is, do you think it sensible\r\nstanding for a sensible man, one foot on confidence and the other on\r\nsuspicion? Don't you think, barber, that you ought to elect? Don't you\r\nthink consistency requires that you should either say 'I have confidence\r\nin all men,' and take down your notification; or else say, 'I suspect\r\nall men,' and keep it up.\"\r\n\r\nThis dispassionate, if not deferential, way of putting the case, did not\r\nfail to impress the barber, and proportionately conciliate him.\r\nLikewise, from its pointedness, it served to make him thoughtful; for,\r\ninstead of going to the copper vessel for more water, as he had\r\npurposed, he halted half-way towards it, and, after a pause, cup in\r\nhand, said: \"Sir, I hope you would not do me injustice. I don't say, and\r\ncan't say, and wouldn't say, that I suspect all men; but I _do_ say that\r\nstrangers are not to be trusted, and so,\" pointing up to the sign, \"no\r\ntrust.\"\r\n\r\n\"But look, now, I beg, barber,\" rejoined the other deprecatingly, not\r\npresuming too much upon the barber's changed temper; \"look, now; to say\r\nthat strangers are not to be trusted, does not that imply something like\r\nsaying that mankind is not to be trusted; for the mass of mankind, are\r\nthey not necessarily strangers to each individual man? Come, come, my\r\nfriend,\" winningly, \"you are no Timon to hold the mass of mankind\r\nuntrustworthy. Take down your notification; it is misanthropical; much\r\nthe same sign that Timon traced with charcoal on the forehead of a skull\r\nstuck over his cave. Take it down, barber; take it down to-night. Trust\r\nmen. Just try the experiment of trusting men for this one little trip.\r\nCome now, I'm a philanthropist, and will insure you against losing a\r\ncent.\"\r\n\r\nThe barber shook his head dryly, and answered, \"Sir, you must excuse me.\r\nI have a family.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJNPWHK63WHT4VHC9C1QT","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKBBCTVC5DPCEP3KRMCSE","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:01.381Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.293Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}