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It requires a load of patience and I am principled against showing any impatience to little folks lest it should lessen my influence."
On another subject, lest a reader be misled into assuming that Skeat was a bishop by the facetious heading, “The Invariably Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1], it should be pointed out that Right Reverend is the customary title for that rank in the Anglican Communion.
And in order to have growing scalp hair--as humans uniquely do--you need to have hands to cut it, lest it get so long that it jeopardizes your survival.
True, when pressed, top economic advisers have called the spending caps "totally unrealistic," but they are loath to press this point too loudly, lest it call into question both their own plans for additional "investments" (read spending and tax breaks) and the president's embrace of the limits in the first place.
Lest anyone confuse these demands with negotiation, Albright insisted, "We're not trying to please President Milosevic.