#tidings

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

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#ask #bad #bad news #company #easy

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ↗

— Edward Fairfax

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#ear #every #hear #joy #mind

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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#appearing #before #bring #country #good