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So, as I have already said, Lincoln put the letter aside, for he had learned by bitter experience that sharp criticisms and rebukes almost invariably end in futility.

What do you suppose Meade did when he read the letter? Meade never saw that letter. Lincoln never mailed it. It was found among his papers after his death.

8. The president of an important Wall Street bank once described, in a talk before one of my classes, a highly efficient system he used for self-improvement. This man had little formal schooling; yet he had become one of the most important financiers in America, and he confessed that he owed most of his success to the constant application of his homemade system. This is what he does. I’ll put it in his own words as accurately as I can remember.

Hurting people not only does not change them, it is never called for.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.”

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.”

Once I did bad and that I heard ever/Twice I did good, but that I heard

in an intensively exuberant, colloquial, conversational manner.

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