I make it a habit to check the mail that goes into the “Spam” folder, just in case some genuinely important mail got mistakenly moved there. Today, I clicked randomly on one of them, and this was what I found:
The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
If we don’t come apart we will come apart.
There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
I feel bad that I don’t feel worse.
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
It was spam, but it had these “quotes” in it. Not bad, for spam; I could learn something from some of it, or even enjoy a little laugh (see first line).
Who knows, they might one day spam me with a chapter from Thoreau or Chomsky—then I’d consider buying something.
