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920 – “I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.”

-Rutherford B Hayes, 19th President of the United States of America

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Posted in Hayes, Rutherford B and tagged Brevity, Diary, Entitlement, Gift, Natural, Recognition, Silence, Sourced, Talent on July 31, 2019 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

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