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How To Win Friends And Influence People

Part VI: Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier

1 – How To Dig Your Marital Grave In The Quickest Possible Way.

If you want to keep your home life happy,
• Rule 1 is: Don’t, don’t nag!!!

2 – Love And Let Live

“The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy …”

Leland Foster Wood in his book, Growing Together in the Family, has observed: “Success in marriage is much more than a matter of finding the right person; it is also a matter of being the right person.”

If you want your home life to be happy,
• Rule 2 is: Don’t try to make your partner over.

3 – Do This And You’ll Be Looking Up The Time-Tables To Reno

If you want to keep your home life happy, remember Rule 3:
Don’t criticize.

4 – A Quick Way To Make Everybody Happy

Men should express their appreciation of a woman’s effort to look well and dress becomingly. All men forget, if they have ever realized it, how profoundly women are interested in clothes.

If you want to keep your home life happy, one of the most important rules is
• Rule 4: Give honest appreciation.

5 – They Mean So Much To A Woman

Breakfast in bed to a woman does much the same thing as a private club for a man.

So, if you want to keep your home life happy,
• Rule 5 is: Pay little attentions.

6 – If You Want To Be Happy, Don’t Neglect This One

Dorothy Dix: “It is an amazing but true thing that practically the only people who ever say mean, insulting, wounding things to us are those of our own households.”

“Courtesy,” says Henry Clay Risner, “is that quality of heart that overlooks the broken gate and calls attention to the flowers in the yard beyond the gate.” Courtesy is just as important to marriage as oil is to your motor.

So, if you want to keep your home life happy.
• Rule 6 is: Be courteous.

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