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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 18 Feb 2009 at 6:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.