If nothing happens when you ask nicely, raise a stink until something gets done.

In Notes of Ling-hsiao and I-shih, Kuo-wen chou-pao, chüan 9, No. 28, July 18, 1932, p. 1, Chang Ch'ien, native of Nan-t'ung, Kiangsu, who later founded the big cotton mills, is described as beginning to study poem and eight-legged sessay writing at twelve, becoming sheng-yüan at the early age of sixteen.

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Blast it! Foiled again.