Apropos of nothing in particular:
I believe when most of us think of Winston Churchill, we think of his rather pungent turns of phrase. Which is fair. But there’s a story:
There was a joke going around, attributed to Churchill: “An empty taxi arrived and out of it stepped Attlee.”
John Colville, Churchill’s private secretary, repeated the joke – and the attribution – to him. Churchill responded:
Mr Attlee is an honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the time of her greatest need. I should be obliged if you would make it clear whenever an occasion arises that I would never make such a remark about him, and that I strongly disapprove of anybody who does.
It wasn’t all clever quips. There was a neat sense of personal honor there, too.
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That’s funny, but interesting too.