Well tings have been gettin worse insteada bedder. Da Hellcat, aka, my loverly wife Helen, did not cook dinner de udder night but instead went out fer a long walk. She said when she left ya can make yerself a TV dinner. Well, it been a while since I did dat. I got da microwve ta work once so I figured I could do it again. I tink I cooked a potato in da microwave once, but da Hellcat hadda tell me ta poke holes in da potato. Well as I was eatin the TV dinner Whitney Houston came on da radio singing * The Greatest Love of All."

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all


I was so sad dat night when I fell asleep in my sprated bed, I had another one a dem mystic vision. I saw a man dressed in black in along black coat and he was wearing dose piche nez glasses dat da English used ta wear. And he said ta me Pops ya seem ta be lacking in confidence.
Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossaly than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter. Actors who can't act believe in themselves, and debtors who won't pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness. Believing utterly in oneself is a hysterical and superstitious belief.
And Now I give ya some a my free marriage advice:
"Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all."
"A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage."
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men."
"The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis."
"A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is."
"Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue."
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline."
"The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous."
"I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess."
Den he disappeared in a puff a smoke and I woke up and felt a lot better.