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Charles Caleb Colton

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."

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"Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it."

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"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."

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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

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