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Wilbur Hubbard[_2_] Wilbur Hubbard[_2_] is offline
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"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so
are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not."

Dahammpada




Hmmmm? Speaks them but does them not?

Now where does that apply so well? Oh, I know! I recall somebody speaking
words about delivering several tons of coffee beans by sail from Belize to
Texas. Does that fit into the category of speaking them but doing them not?

"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones." -- Geoffrey
Chaucer

Wilbur Hubbard
Master of turnabout!