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Quote by Joseph Addison
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advic

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

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. – 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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Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. РFran̤ois La Rochefoucauld

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A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones who need the advice. – Bill Cosby

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Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings…. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you’re sometimes crescent, sometimes full. – Rumi

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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. – Arianna Huffington

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The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. – Fred G. Gosman

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

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