American Consequences - January 2019

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Are you in the habit of buying such advice books? (The Grump deplores it.) Are you in the habit of then not reading such advice books? (The Grump shares it.) On the subject of advice, let’s turn to a much better book than any of the above, Times Three – Selected Verse from Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley. She was once – in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s – very popular. She is now mostly forgotten. She’s one of the best poets of the 20th century. McGinley never claimed any expertise in business or leadership. But, as a wife, a housewife, and a mother, she knew a thing

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or two about advice. What she had to say about advice applies to most of that which

is given in books that get on the business best-seller list. Here are some lines from her poem “A Garland of Precepts.” This the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. Tell a tale but seldom twice. Give a stone before advice. Give to love your hearth and hall. But do not give advice at all.

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