Too true, Brian. I was trying to appeal to the master's better nature. Here's another one. Not mine alas, but the master's.
It is seldom difficult to distinguish between a ray of sunshine and a Scotsman with a grievance.
Not quite a proverb, perhaps, more an apothegm.
I wrote a poem full of these things. Is a published poem against the rules? Actually it wouldn't do in its entirety. Bits would though.
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