James Henley Thornwell and the false economy of cheap cigars

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This anecdote about James Henley Thornwell's aversion to anything inexpensive - especially cigars - is one of the greatest of all time. (I alluded to it in the thread about J. H. Thornwell and baptism, but I thought that it deserved a thread of its own.)
 
Am I right in understanding his Thornwell's point to be that if a man will smoke a cheap cigar it is a mark of the kind of character that will also lead a man to steal?
 
Am I right in understanding his Thornwell's point to be that if a man will smoke a cheap cigar it is a mark of the kind of character that will also lead a man to steal?
I was thinking...what about stealing an expensive cigar? Will that make a man more generous?
 
If he was living today he would own a Schuyler no doubt :rolleyes: . And maybe an expensive pen. But just how expensive a fine pen should be, as I've heard, is another discussion all together. . .
 
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