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Mar 2020
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Little Happier: Why We Should Be Polite ...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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A story about Dick Bass and Neil Armstrong was a great illustration of an aphorism I wrote recently: Modestly and good manners can save us from a lot of embarrassment.

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