“Exuberance is good for you.” - Anonymous

“The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

2 November

At one point a harried Abraham Lincoln filed a motion before a Chancery judge. As he strode into the court, fumbling with his hat and the papers it contained, he announced: "May it please your Honor, I am like the Irish sailor, and beg your Honor to excuse me for this hurried interruption."

When the judge asked him to explain the reference, Lincoln responded: "Well, an Irish sailor was overtaken at sea by a heavy storm and he thought he would pray but didn't know how, so he went down on his knees and offered the following prayer:

'Oh, Lord! you know as well as meself that it's seldom I bodder ye, but if ye will only hear me and save me this one time, bedad, it will be a long time before I bodder ye again'."