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• It's worth scheming to be the bearer of good news. -- Fox on Yesmanship Don't be in the building when bad news arrives.
  -- Corollary...
• Laws of Postal Delivery: 1. Important mail arrives late.
  2. Junk mail arrives the day it was sent....
• No news is good news.
• The 23:00 News and Mail Service
• Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. -- Halifax
• If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could.
  But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!...
• Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.
• He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Frankli