From: tim@tiannsjhems.vf   
      
   Neiswinger wrote:   
   >   
   > >Just curious... have you ever been generous to her without her having   
   > >to ask, and before she asks (or scams) you for things?   
   >   
   > Constantly...   
   > I'm not sure I buy your Good In = Good Out philosophy, Tim.  I used to, but   
   I'm   
   > getting more cynical every day.  It is beginning to look like some people   
   just   
   > keep taking... biting the hand that feeds them.  Some people are just bad.   
   > DN   
   > Detroit   
      
   Some people are really bad. Some people are really just scared.   
      
   From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.   
      
   PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain'd,   
   It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven   
   Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;   
   It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:   
      
   'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes   
   The throned monarch better than his crown;   
   His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,   
   The attribute to awe and majesty,   
   Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;   
   But mercy is above this sceptred sway;   
   It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,   
   It is an attribute to God himself;   
   And earthly power doth then show likest God's   
   When mercy seasons justice.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)