Hang the Moon

by Jeannette Walls

Then there are ones like the Duke, plenty of people smarts but a little thin on the book smarts. Then there are those rare few with both, like Tom, and they have enough people smarts to know better than to show off their book smarts.

It’s when the boss asks you to do something you know to be wrong and you do it anyways. That sort of work whittles away at the soul.