The Art of War

[David Morris]

Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.”

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:26 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.  If the
> individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting
> one perfectly harmless in his passivity; then, in the better moods of
> the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination
> what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.
>
> --Melville