“Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.”

—  Wilson Mizner

Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
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