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And Father was Noel Ashenden, who though he did not actually invent the match-book, went into the field when it was still a not very flourishing novelty, and whose slogan, almost a poem,'Close Cover Before Striking'(a simple stroke, as Father liked to say), obvious only after someone else has already thought of it (the Patent Office refused to issue a patent on what it claimed was merely an instruction, but Father's company had the message on its matchbooks before his competitors even knew what was happening), removed the hazard from book matches and turned the industry and Father's firm particularly into a flaming success overnight— Father's joke, not mine.

父亲的广告标语是：&划之前，盖合严&（象老爷子爱说的那样，就是划一下），诗意盎然呵。显然，之前已经有人想到了这一标语（专利办称标语不过是一项说明，拒绝签发专利，但是父亲公司把标语印在了纸板火柴上，其时，他的竞争对手还不清楚发生了什么事）。

But this is impossible, as long as it is engaging in a market economy, there are risks in any operation.

但是，这是不可能的，只要是搞市场经济，是有风险的任何行动。

We're on the same wavelength.

我们是同道中人。