There are so many other contemporary ways this can be said: ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’; ‘if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen’; ‘people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’; and so many more. The point being that you shouldn’t get involved in things like gossip, rumors, snarky comments, or jokes about others: once you start down than dangerous and slippery slope there’s little you can say or do when others do the same about you. The moral of this tale: participate only in things that are righteous, appropriate, kind, well-intended, positive, supportive, proper, and nice. Whether at the water cooler, in-person, on the phone, or spoken in supposed confidence: say and do only the kinds of things you’d want others to say and do to and about you. Simple to say (I know), but much harder to consistently do. Take part in the right kinds of things today.
James Boswell (1740 –1795): Scottish biographer and diarist, best known for the biography he wrote of Samuel Johnson
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