Careful Words

promotion (n.)

  Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

Old Testament: Psalm lxxv. 6.

O, good old man, how well in thee appears

The constant service of the antique world,

When service sweat for duty, not for meed!

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,

Where none will sweat but for promotion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.