Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious. - Leo Rosten

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Vun ting more I should say, so de cless shouldn´t fill too bed about Jake Popper. It´s awreddy nine yiss since he pest avay!”
“And I didn´t go to de funeral!” On this strange note, Mr. Kaplan took his seat.
The class hummed, protesting against this anticlimax which left so much to the imagination.
“Why you didn´t?” cried Mr. Bloom, with a knowing nod to the Misses Mitnick and Caravello.
Mr. Kaplan´s face was a study in sufferance. “Becawss de funeral vas in de meedle of the veek,” he sighed. “An´ I said to minesalf, “Keplen, you in America, so tink like de Americans tink!´ So I tought, an´ I didn´t go. Becawss I tought of dat dip American idea, ´Business before pleasure!

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