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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Wats

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. – Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. – Joseph Addison

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When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. – Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872

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He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both. – Francis Bacon

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