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Trades
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How the WASPs loved to nickname their children after the workaday trades: Tinker. Cooper. Smithy. Maybe it was to hearken back to their seventeenth-century New England bootstraps--the manual trades that had made them stalwart and humble and virtuous in the eyes of their Lord. Or maybe it was just a way of politely understating their predestination to having it all.
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― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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Know where to draw the line in business transactions. Do not offer to solve the problems you know you cannot solve.
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― Your Clients and You
― Your Clients and You














































