Always appoint an hour at which you’ll see a man, and if he’s late a minute don’t bother with him. A fellow who can be late when his own interests are at stake is pretty sure to be when yours are.

George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) American journalist, author, magazine editor

Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, ch. 10 (1903)
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