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"Third, maintain a deceptively soft touch and smile with everyone. Follow the same strategy that we followed during the trial; defend our points of view without raising resentments. There will be enough time later to squash all the cockroaches together. Do not lose heart over anything or anyone; after all, we did not do so during the most difficult moments.
One last counsel: beware of envy. When someone has glory and prestige as you do, the mediocre easily find motives or pretexts to be suspicious. Accept help from anyone, but remember, trust no one."

-- Fidel Castro, in a letter to Melba Hernandez, April 17 1954
The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

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( Illustration. )

"Perhaps at first glance you cannot find the mistake that is being made by the young lady in the picture opposite. Obviously, the four young people are on their way to a picnic, or an outing, or a sports occasion of some kind. They are all attired in sports clothes. But the lady on the running-board is wearing high heels which are absolutely inappropriate with sports clothes.

Just a detail, you may say, but it is just such details as these that condemn one as ill-bred. Mistakes in dress are immediately evident to the well-groomed person. A dressy hat should not be worn with a sports coat. A sports jacket should not be worn over an afterrnoon frock. Just as there is a certain correct costume for every occasion, there are certain "parts" that go to make up that correct costume. One "part" wrongly selected- such as the high-heeled shoes above- and the costume is no longer correct.

In other words, the motto for people who want to be correctly dressed at all times is, "There's a time for every dress- and every dress in its time!"