It’s Memorial Day weekend, and aside from paying my respects to the men and women in uniform who have served this country well, I couldn’t think of anything else better to do than to sit by the pool and smoke my Alec Bradley Tempus Terra Novo with a bit of Macallan 18-year old on the side.

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Much may be said of a man by the shoes he wears. We know something of where is going or where he has been; the seriousness of his mind and business; the accumulation of wealth and material comfort he enjoys; the simplicity or extravagance of his fashion; the value he gives to comfort. Perhaps we do not put a great deal of thought into the purchase, but the statement is made regardless.

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“So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of acting greatly. To fight out a war, you must believe something and want something with all your might. So must you do to carry anything else to an end worth reaching. More than that, you must be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out. All that is required of you is that you should go somewhither as hard as ever you can. The rest belongs to fate. One may fall-at the beginning of the charge or at the top of the earthworks; but in no other way can he reach the rewards of victory” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in an address delivered for Memorial Day, May 30, 1884, at Keene, NH, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic

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A Grammar Scold is a person—probably college-educated—who has done some reading but doesn’t read regularly; a person who thinks he knows the English language but who really doesn’t; a person who is obsessed by rules but doesn’t understand the end for which those rules were made.

A schoolmarm, basically, of either sex.

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