QUOTE O' TH' WEEK:

Man is conceived in ignorance and born in doubt, and his life goes downhill from there,” Ray wrote to Dad. “he makes his way from pure foolishness to outright stupidity stopping now and then to do something mean and ugly. And yet to some lucky persons the Lord doles out a modicum of common sense, enough to enable us to know our butt from a hot rock, to not spend all our money or insult our friends, and to sit down and shut up when it’s our time to. Now is the time to sit down and shut up, Walter. The urge to perform is not a sign of talent; greed is not an indication of business acumen. Keep this in mind, it may be helpful in the future. The beauty of retirement is the way it raises your reputation: you keep plugging away and soon you’ll be a ridiculous relic in a back number, but you quit soon enough and live long enough and you’ll come to be regarded as a genius and a pioneer. This is the truth, or otherwise I wouldn’t tell you. The key to a person’s reputation is he knew when to quit. A word to the wise should be sufficient. Good luck, your friend Ray.”

---Garrison Keillor
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