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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