“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
Margaret Thatcher
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right your writ, to the highest standard of your satisfaction
when they tell you, get topical, or even worse AIM TO PLEASE, be hip, never gray, or to grab the edge with just one hand to prove if you need that forced bravery is a falsehood of youth
tell them flat out to take that red marker, to shove it up their scholarly *******
you’ll know pretty quickly those who’ll line up beside ya, not behind ya, and jump in front, they don’t desire your liking, and nor it, do they deserve
it cuts both ways, both ends are not the means, ‘cept means to a unsatisfactory ending, dishonorable