The elegant and dashing Otto Kahn, a noted investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb and Company) and controlling stockholder in the Metropolitan Opera Company, was strolling along Fifth Avenue with the humorist Marshall Wilder, who was a hunchback. Kahn pointed out the church to which he belonged and asked, “Marshall, did you know that I was once a Jew?” “Yes, Otto,” Wilder relied, “and once I was a hunchback.” -Charles Silberman
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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