 | "Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
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| "It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice."
- Anne Tyler
, Celestial Navigation, 1974. |
| "People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."
- Brendan Francis
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| "Ask advice only of your equals."
- Danish Proverb
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| "Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
, Letters, 1952. |
| "Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
- English Proverb
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| "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong
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| "[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't."
- Erica Jong
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| "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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