• The task is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand - Thomas Carlyle
• Necessity never made a good bargain - Benjamin F
• Acquire worldly wisdom and do what you think is right. If that gives you temporary unpopularity with your peer group, then to hell with them - Charles M
• The ones who matter don't mind, and the ones that mind don't matter. - (unbelievably, Dr Seuss)
  
  Reading the Almanack again, as a bad day in the market. Rushing to work now to do what lies at hand, loath to leave the tulips though.