The businessman dragged himself home and barely made it to his chair before he dropped, exhausted.
His sympathetic wife was right there with a tall cool drink and a comforting word.
"My, you look tired," she said. "You must have had a hard day today. What happened to make you so exhausted?"
"It was terrible," her husband said, "The computer broke down and all of us had to do our own thinking."
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle
The numbers "172" can be found on the back of a US $5 bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln memorial.
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