“All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.”
John Lentell
1st February, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does – and about two years after he thinks he does.”
(Lewis B. Hershey, 1893 – 1977)
John Lentell
31st January, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“Some evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”
(Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
30th January, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“Compassion is not the same thing as pity; pity is of a lower order, too likely to regard its object as weak and inferior. Compassion is never patronizing or condescending; rather it implies an outgoing of sympathy that shares another’s burden by hoisting it on to our own shoulders, and halves another’s pains by taking it into our own hearts.”
(Bruce Barton, 1886 – 1967)
John Lentell
29th January, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“I believe, Sir, that you desire to look at these apartments. They are very charming apartments, Sir. They command an uninterrupted view of – of over the way, and they are within one minute’s walk of – of the corner of the street.”
(Dick Swiveller in The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870)
John Lentell
28th January, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“The history of liberty is the history of the limitations on the power of the government.”
(Woodrow Wilson, 1856 – 1924)
John Lentell
27th January, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.”
(If you wish to draw tears from me, you must first feel pain yourself.)
(Horace, 65 BC – 8 BC)
John Lentell
26th January, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“That best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
(From Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
25th January, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has to do with politics.”
(Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 – 1816)
John Lentell
24th January, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“‘I didn’t like the look of you sitting there in that big chair talking so damn smugly and cynically!’ She said. ‘You looked disgusting! You looked like just the kind of guy you always used to hate. The guy with all the answers. The guy who has no respect for himself or anyone else.'”
(From The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson, 1920 – 2003)
John Lentell
21st January, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“There is always another chance. ….This thing that we call ‘Failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
(Mary Pickford, 1892 – 1979)
John Lentell
20th January, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“….one view of the role of the ‘Establishment’….is that it creates a closed, self-contained circle which favours hereditary amateurs against self-made professionals, produces ‘old-boy’ agreements between banks and businesses, and acts as a drag on ambition and dynamic.”
(From Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
19th January, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“……the City council’s ambulances travelled a total of 57,848 miles in transporting 477 patients (during the year ending June 30, 1969)”
Report in the Rhodesia Herald, Wednesday 14th January, 1970.
(Ambulances under normal circumstances do not proceed beyond the city limits on which basis each patient was transported 121.274 miles!!!)
John Lentell
18th January, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Maturity: among other things – not to hide one’s strength out of fear and, consequently, live below one’s best.”
(‘Markings‘ by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
17th January, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
I wonder if the South African ‘Verkramptes‘ have Rhodesian associates?
John Lentell
16th January, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“A servant should never be noisy when on duty. He is not supposed to whistle or sing, talk loudly, or call to his fellow servants.” !!!
(From The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge, 1887 – 1963)
John Lentell
15th January, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“PUFFER – one employed to raise prices at an auction sale by fictitious bidding.”
(Collins New English Dictionary)
John Lentell
14th January, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“PUFF – exaggerated praise, especially in a newspaper, given to a person, book, advertised article, etc……”
(Collins New English Dictionary)
John Lentell
15th January, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“On one occasion, my telephone at home started tinkling in an odd way. I took off the receiver, but heard nothing; so I started banging the cradle. A tired voice at the other end of the line said: “Please don’t keep banging, have patience. We’re switching you over to another recording machine. It’s a complicated system, you understand.”
(“Why I Left Russia’ by Anatoli Kuznetsov, 1929 – 1979)
John Lentell
9th January, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“Remember that it pays to go to a reputable 9antique) dealer. There are probably more sharks in this trade than any other since the public is often ill-informed, gullible and easy to deceive.”
(Jennifer Lafitte in S.A. GARDEN & HOME)
John Lentell
10th January, 1970
Lentell Soup 