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• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
  -- Acheson's Rule of Bureauracracy...
• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheso
• If the writer is considerate of the reader, he won't have a problem with ambiguous sentences.
• The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!
  "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it....
• The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
  -- Goethe (1749-1832) -- Autobiography, Book xviii, Truth and Beauty...
• OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words.
  A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer....
• Senators are a prolific source of advice, and most of it is bad. -- Dean Acheso
• The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
  This is not always easy to achieve. -- Dean Acheso...
• The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
  This is not always easy to achieve. ACHESON...