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The Christmas card is representative of a Christmas miracle; namely everyone receives more Christmas cards than he sends.
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The Christmas card is an effective technique is to snub marginal friends who snubbed you the year before.
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The Christmas card is proof that if there is much sentiment in business, there is even more business in sentiment.
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The Christmas card is an annual opportunity to discover who your friends are, esp. by holding out until the final week and scratching the delinquent names from your list. Another effective technique is to snub marginal friends who snubbed you the year before, which virtually assures that they will send you a card; one may thus sustain a satisfying lifelong pattern of alternateyear snubbing.
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