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A Big Business Man Was Telling Henry Ford About A Coach Driver Of Super-expertness With His Whip. The Driver Was Telling How He Could Flick A Fly Off His Horse's Ear With His Whip-and, A Fly Alighting Just Then, He Promptly Did So. Next He Spied A Grasshopper Beside The Road, And He Flicked It Off With Equal Dexterity. A Little Further Along The Road The Passenger Noticed An Insect On A Bush, And Nudged The Driver To Get Him. Not On Your Life, Replied The Master Of The Whip. That There Insect Is A Hornet Sitting On His Nest With An Organization Behind Him. I Leave Him Alone.
-B. C. Forbes
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B. C. Forbes
A Big Business Man Was Telling Henry Ford About A Coach Driver Of Super-expertness With His Whip. The Driver Was Telling How He Could Flick A Fly Off His Horse's Ear With His Whip-and, A Fly Alighting Just Then, He Promptly Did So. Next He Spied A Grasshopper Beside The Road, And He Flicked It Off With Equal Dexterity. A Little Further Along The Road The Passenger Noticed An Insect On A Bush, And Nudged The Driver To Get Him. Not On Your Life, Replied The Master Of The Whip. That There Insect Is A Hornet Sitting On His Nest With An Organization Behind Him. I Leave Him Alone.
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