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A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you will look forward to the trip.
Fortune's graffito of the week (or maybe even month):
Don't Write On Walls!
(and underneath)
You want I should type?
Egotist, n.:
A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate
and captain of your soul.
The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by
people who want some.
-- Dwight MacDonald
Loan-department manager: "There isn't any fine print. At these
interest rates, we don't need it."
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
-- Justice Robert H. Jackson
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term.
Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
Saturday, 21 February 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
