While Twitter is often maligned as a magnificent waste of one's time, it can also serve as an instruction manual to the Good Life. This was very much the case on Friday, when free-agent lefty and valet to dignity Dallas Braden tweeted advice so sound it seems lifted from the shared ruminations of Solomon and Confucius ...

Now, neophytes, venture into the world about you and tell the others what you have learned.

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