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TROUBLE --- TROUBLE MAKERS
TRUMAN (HARRY S.)
TRUST

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TROUBLE

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Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying,
It never was worthwhile. So:
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
--George Asaf [George H. Powell] (1880—1951)
British songwriter,
"Pack up your Troubles" [1915 song]
{music by Felix Powell}

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of
all progress in individuals and in nations.
--Berthold Auerbach (1812—1882)
German novelist.

There is but one easy place in this
world, and that is the grave.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher].

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Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and
unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this
life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are
of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good
fortune to others.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
{retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}


Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune
than never misses.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
{retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}

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If you would not have affliction visit you twice,
listen at once to what it teaches.
--James Burgh (1714—1775)
Scottish author.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by
folks who can't mind their own business, because
they have no business of their own to mind, any
more than a smallpox virus has.
--William S. Burroughs (1914—1997)
American author associated with the Beat Generation.

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Put you in this pickle.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615]
Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 1, ch. 5.


Forewarned forearmed.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615]
Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 10.

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The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
--Chinese proverb

If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow;
and when we lie down at night we may safely say
to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst,
and we shall see you no more."
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.

It is a matter of much satisfaction and gratitude with
me to observe how heroically most of us endure the
misfortunes of other people.
--John W. De Forest (1826—1906)
American writer.
_Seacliff or The Mystery of the Westervelts_ [1859]

My life is one demd horrid grind!
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Nicholas Nickleby [1839]

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Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived;
But what torments of pain you endured
From evils that never arrived!
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Translation of a French poem in
"Considerations by the Way"
_The Conduct of Life_ [1860].


When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.

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If afflictions refine some, they consume others.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
_Gnomologia_ [1732]

One may not reach the dawn
save by path of night.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't
pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say
embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an
enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll
see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms
with it.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.

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God will not look you over for medals,
degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."


If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just
remember that this is also true of trouble.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]


Life is just one damned thing after another.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
In "Philistine" [December 1909].

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How much pain have cost us the evils
which have never happened.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
"A Decologue of Canons for observation in personal life";
in a letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith [21 February 1825].

Never trust the man who tells you all his
troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
--Jewish Proverb

People are like stained-glass windows. They
sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but
when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a Light from within.
--Elisabeth Kόbler-Ross
Swiss-born psychiatrist and author.
_To Live Until We Say Goodbye_ [1978]

Philosophy easily triumphs over past ills and ills to
come, but present ills triumph over philosophy.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

Yesterday, all my troubles
seemed so far away.
Now it seems
they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
--John Lennon (1940—1980) & Paul McCartney (1942— )
English pop singers and songwriters,
"Yesterday" [1965 song]

Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"The Rainy Day"

He who walks through a great city to find subjects for
weeping, may, God knows, find plenty at every corner
to wring his heart; but let such a man walk on his
course, and enjoy his grief alone -- we are not of
those who would accompany him. The miseries of us
poor earthdwellers gain no alleviation from the
sympathy of those who merely hunt them out to be
pathetic over them. The weeping philosopher too often
impairs his eyesight by his woe, and becomes unable
from his tears to see the remedies for the evils
which he deplores. Thus it will often be found that
the man of no tears is the truest philanthropist, as
he is the best physician who wears a cheerful face,
even in the worst of cases.
--Charles Mackay (1814—1889)
Scottish poet and newspaperman.
_Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_

there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble
--Don Marquis (1878—1937)
American poet and journalist.
"comforting thoughts"
_archy does his part_ [1935]

We talk about fate as if it were something
visited upon us; we forget that we create
our fate every day we live. And by fate I
mean the woes that beset us, which are
merely the effects of causes which are not
nearly as mysterious as we pretend. Most
of the ills we suffer from are directly
traceable to our own behavior.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_A Devil in Paradise_ [1956]

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
--Dolly Parton (1946— )
American country music singer.
In Bob Phillips _Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts_, p. 264 [1993].

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling
one's trouble does not make it better.
--Cesare Pavese (1908—1950)
Italian novelist, poet, and translator.
_This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935—1950_

The real troubles in your life are apt to
be things that never crossed your worried
mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 P.M.
on some idle Tuesday.
--Mary Schmich
American newspaper columnist.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be
bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
--Peter Sellers (1925—1980)
English comic actor.

Things past redress are now with me past care.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist,
_Richard II_ [1595]

More men discover their souls in darkness than
they do in light. This is not to invite darkness; it
is only to be reminded that darkness need not
go to waste when it is thrust upon us.
--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular
preacher to appear on television.
_On Being Human_ [1982]

Troubles hurt the most
when they prove self-inflicted.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Oedipus Rex_ tr. David Grene [1942]

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave;
they will never rise again when you have committed them to
Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back
again like the stone of Sisyphus.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834—1892)
English nonconformist preacher.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
--Amy Tan (1952— )
American writer.
In John Cook
_The Book of Positive Quotations_, p. 252 [2007].

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.

If you think your bundle of dirty clothes too
heavy, try picking up your neighbor's.
--Virgin Island Proverb

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About 850 B.C., Odysseus, the hero from Homer's "The Odyssey," faced
a perilous nautical journey between Scylla, a terrifying sea
monster, and Charybdis, a massive whirlpool. As Homer's story was
passed down through the generations, it became immortalized in the
metaphor, "Between Scylla and Charybdis," which was used to describe
the careful path one must take to emerge from two troubling fronts.
--"Between Scylla and Charybdis"
John J. Castellani, in "The Wall Street Journal"
[23 August 2005]

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A married couple goes to see a rabbi. 'What can
I do for you,' the rabbi says. 'We're having a
terrible problem, Rabbi,' the couple says. 'We
have five children and we all live in a one-room
house and we're driving each other crazy.' The
rabbi says, 'Move in a sheep.' So they move a
sheep into the house. A week later they go see
the rabbi and tell him that things are worse than
ever, plus there's a sheep. 'Move in a cow,' the
rabbi says. The next week they go to complain
once again, there's a cow. 'Move in a horse,' the
rabbi says. The next week the couple goes to see
the rabbi to tell him that things are the worst
they've ever been. 'You're ready for the solution,'
the rabbi says. 'Move the animals out.'

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fraught (adj.) [frat or frawt]
Loaded, filled, weighed down (with).

woebegone WOE-bee-gon, adjective:
1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed
in grief or sorrow; woeful.
2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking;
dilapidated; run-down.



TROUBLE MAKERS

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I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates
through his veins, and not regular blood.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Martin Chuzzlewit_ [1843-1844]

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was
lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in
a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and
shouting 'All gods are bastards.'
--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_The Colour of Magic_

The world is round. Only one-third of the human beings on
earth are asleep at any one time, and two-thirds are awake
and up to some mischief.
--Dean Rusk (1909—1994)
American politician.



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TRUMAN (HARRY S.)

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Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945-1953]

see "POLITICS" for related links
see "PEOPLE" for related links


Truman's very ordinariness has today made him something
of a folk hero: a plain-speaking, straight-talking, ordinary
fellow who did what he saw as his duty without turning
his obligation into an opportunity for personal gain.
--Robert H. Farrell (1921— )
American historian, educator, and author.
_Truman: A Centenary Remembrance_ [1984]

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[Upon relieving MacArthur] Truman [...] said, characteristically,
of the hostile polls: 'I wonder how far Moses would have gone
if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have
preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel?... It isn't
polIs that count. It is right and wrong, and leadership — men with
fortitude, honesty and a belief in the right that make epochs
in the history of the world.' But gradually the rage died down,
and MacArthur's own highly emotional appearance before a
joint session of Congress was more a valedictory than a
gesture of defiance. The conviction gradually spread that
Truman had been right, and many now see the episode as
his finest hour, a forceful and perhaps long overdue
reassertion of the elective, civil power over an undoubted
military hero who had ignored the constitutional chain of
command.

The truth is, Truman kept in mind, which MacArthur did not,
that the object of US intervention in Korea was not to start a
third world war, but to prevent one. That is what it did. The
war settled down to a stalemate. Negotiations scaled down
and eventually ended (July 27, 1953) the fighting, though the
country remained divided and the cease fire line tense. The
war was costly. US casualties included 33,629 battle deaths,
20,617 non-hostile deaths, and 103,284 wounded. There
were in addition, 8177 missing and, of the 7,140 servicemen
made prisoner, only 3,746 were repatriated.

--Paul Johnson (1928— )
British historian.
_A History of the American People_ [1997] pp. 824-825

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I had heard much of President Truman's violent temper
and paroxysms of ungovernable rage, and had noted with
growing concern his increasingly indecisive handling
of the Korean situation. From strength in his original
decision to free and unite Korea, he had, step by step,
weakened into a hesitant nervousness indicative of a
state of confusion and bewilderment.

He had never been to Korea, and his ignorance of the
Far East and its peoples had become a dangerous failing
in one responsible for final decisions. It was quite
apparent his nerves were at the breaking point — not
only his nerves, but what was far more menacing in the
Chief Executive of a country at war — his nerve.

--Douglas MacArthur (1880—1964)
American general.
_Reminiscences_ [1964], "Frustration in Korea"

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Truman...assumed as a matter of course that the American
people were just folks like himself. He thus wasted no
high-falutin rhetoric upon them, but appealed directly
to their self-interest. Every one of them, he figured,
was itching for something, and he made his campaign by
the sempiternal device of engaging to give it to them.
A politico trained in a harsh but realistic school, he
naturally directed his most gaudy promises to the groups
that seemed to be most numerous, and the event proved
that he was a smart mathematician. [...]

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the
country he would have promised to provide them with free
missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
In "Baltimore Sun" [7 November 1948]
(Of Harry Truman's success in the 1948 presidential campaign.)

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TRUST

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see: "BETRAYAL"
see "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links


In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this
poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
--Aeschylus (525—456 B.C.)
Greek tragic dramatist.
_Prometheus Bound_

Do not trust in a friend; do not put your confidence
in a companion; guard the doors of your mouth from
her who lies in your bosom.
--Bible
"Micah" 7:5

Read carefully anything that requires your
signature. Remember the big print giveth
and the small print taketh away.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940— )
American author.
_Life's Little Instruction Book_ [1991], Maxim #176

Never trust anyone who wears a beard, a bow-tie,
two-toned shoes, sandals or sunglasses.
--Michael Caine [Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (1933— )
British actor.
In "The Times" [1992] (quoting his father's advice.)

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing
for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will
thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Sartor Resartus_ [1833-1834]

A wise man does not trust all his
eggs to one basket.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605-1615]

Never trust a man with short legs.
Brains too near their bottoms.
--Noλl Coward (1899—1973)
English playwright, actor, and composer.
In Arthur Richmond
_Modern Quotations for Ready Reference_ [1947], p. 37.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity
is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing
so, we build the trust of those who are present.
--Stephen Covey (1932— )
American author.

Frankly speaking it is difficult to trust the Chinese.
Once bitten by a snake you feel suspicious when you
see a piece of rope.
--Dalai Lama [Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub]
(1935— ) spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.
{Dalai Lama is Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom")
[attributed, in 1981]

Women suffer more from disappointment than men,
because they have more of faith and are naturally
more credulous.
--Marguerite de Valois (1553—1615)
Queen of France and Navarre.

Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards.
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936)
American journalist and humorist.
"Mr. Dooley's Opinions" [1900], "Casual Observations"

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Romola_, p. 443 [1886]

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.

It is an equal Failing to trust everybody
and to trust nobody.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_, 2893, [1732]

'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero.'
Seize the day, and put the least possible
trust in tomorrow.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Odes_

Never trust the man who tells you all
his troubles but keeps from you all
his joys.
--Jewish Proverb

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier
to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
"The Rambler" (English journal) [18 December 1750]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
--Juvenal (c. 55—130)
Roman satirist.
_Satires_

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Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving
Than doubt one heart that, if believed,
Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Oh, in this mocking world, too fast,
The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth;
Better be cheated to the last
Than lose the blessed hope of truth.

--Frances Anne Kemble (1809—1893)
English-born actress and author;
grandmother of Owen Wister.

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One day Mikoyan and I were taking a walk around
the grounds and Stalin came out on the porch of the
house. He seemed not to notice Mikoyan and me.
'I'm finished,' he said to no one in particular. 'I trust
no one, not even myself.'
--Nikita Khrushchev (1894—1971)
Soviet statesman, Premier [1958—1964].
_Khruschev Remembers_ [1971] pp. 306-307

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too. . . .
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
"If" in _Rewards and Fairies_ [1910]

It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends
than to be deceived by them.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678];
maxim 84

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power).
_The Way of Lao-tzu_

Be certain that he who has betrayed
thee once will betray thee again.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.

To be trusted is a far greater compliment
than to be loved.
--James Ramsay MacDonald (1866—1937)
British politician, three-time Prime Minister
of Great Britain.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset
that from now on I can't believe you.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.

His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools:
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed
up all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't
trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and
there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a
drink."
--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_Small Gods_ [1992]

Trust, like the soul, never returns
once it is gone.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.

There are three kinds of men you must never
trust : a man who hunts south of the Thames,
a man who has soup for lunch and a man who
waxes his moustache.
--James Richards,
_Memoirs of an Unjust Fella_

I would rather be the man who bought the
Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
--Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.

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Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key. Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_All's Well That Ends Well_ [1602-1604]


The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Merchant of Venice_ [1596—1598]

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that
he is not believed, but that he cannot believe
anyone else.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Quintessence of Ibsenism_ [1890], ch. 4

Trust that man in nothing who has
not a Conscience in everything.
--Laurence Sterne (1713—1768)
English novelist.
_Tristram Shandy_ [1760], bk. II, ch. XVII

Few things help an individual more than to place
responsibility upon him and to let him know that
you trust him.
--Booker T. Washington (1856—1915)
African-American educator.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those few be well tried before you
give them your confidence.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit,
and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance
and control.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Money in the Bank_ [1946]

I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" [1899]

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A soldier stationed in the South Pacific wrote to his wife in the
States to please send him a harmonica to occupy his free time and
keep his mind off of the local women. The wife complied and sent
the best one she could find, along with several dozen lesson and
music books.

Rotated back home, he rushed to their home and thru the front door.
"Oh darling" he gushed, "Come here... let me look at you... let me
hold you ! Let's have a fine dinner out, then make love all night.
I've missed your lovin' so much!" The wife, keeping her distance,
said, "All in good time lover. First, let's hear you play that
harmonica."

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recreant (adj.) ['re-kri-yκnt]
(1) Disloyal, unfaithful, apostate;
(2) cowardly, faint-hearted, craven.


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