First, a great quote from Deion Sanders:
“If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good. If you play good, they pay good.”
Second, a man plays “The Boys Are Back In Town” on a bar’s jukebox until he gets kicked out:
I left with a full heart, flush with new knowledge about the town, and the boys within it, who now would never leave, and word of whom I had spread around. I would also be severely late to work the next morning
Third, H.L. Mencken once said something about the American public that’s still very applicable:
Here [in the United States] the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head, and is thrown willy-nilly into a meager and exclusive aristocracy.