I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

White shall not neutralize the black nor good compensate bad in man absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.