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• Weed's Axiom: Never ask two questions in a business letter.
  The reply will discuss the one in which you are least interested and say nothing about the other....
• Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
• Hi! How are things going? (just fine, thank you...
  ) Great! Say, could I bother you for a question? (you just asked one....
• Hale Mail Rule, The: When you are ready to reply to a letter, you will lack at least one of the following
  (a) A pen or pencil or typewriter. (b) Stationery....
• When you are ready to reply to a letter, you will lack at least one of the following
  (a) A pen or pencil or typewriter. (b) Stationery....
• Inferior people gossip about other persons; common people discuss eve
  the wise man is interested in ideas....
• Well, here it is, 1983, so it won't be long before you start reading a lot of boring stories about people like Vance Hartke.
  Hartke is a governor or mayor or something from one of the flatter states, and the reason you'll be reading about him is that he's one of the 50 top contenders for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination....
• Well, here it is, 1983, so it won't be long before you start reading a lot of boring stories about people like Vance Hartke.
  Hartke is a governor or mayor or something from one of the flatter states, and the reason you'll be reading about him is that he's one of the 50 top contenders for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination....