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Melt It, Don't Hammer It
Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011 (message contributor)
MELT IT, DON'T HAMMER IT
Alexander Maclaren once said, "Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it."
The writer from the 1930’s, Somerset Maugham, had a mother who was an extraordinarily beautiful woman his father was an extraordinarily ugly man. When a family friend once asked how such a beautiful woman could have married such an ugly man, she replied, "He has never once hurt my feelings."
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