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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that’s retroactive.

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• When the product is right, you don’t have to be a great marketer.

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• The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

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• Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

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• In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

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• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.

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• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

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• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

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• Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

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Harold Coffin (10)

Birth:	1905
Death:	1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Columnist

About

Harold Coffin was born in Reno, Nevada. He was an American former humor columnist for The Associated Press. He retired from The Associated Press in 1975 after writing "Coffin's Needle" for 13 years. He graduated from the University of Nevada.

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