“Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.”

—  Mark Twain

"Advice to Youth", speech to The Saturday Morning Club, Boston, 15 April 1882. Mark Twain Speaking (1976), ed. Paul Fatout, p. 169 http://books.google.com/books?id=mkFgXWvUkVoC&pg=PA169
Variant: Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

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