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The difference between good writing and great writing.

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Naomi K
Oct 25, 2012
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It's possible that this knucklehead was the first one to come up with the saying, but I don't believe it. More likely he was just the first and famousest person to write it down.

In a recent email to a friend of mine, I used some variation of the old proverb, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." And I was kind of surprised to f…

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