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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Smart
Rather
Change
Thing
Good
Men
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John
Communication

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Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
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Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.
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Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
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Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
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Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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