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Advice Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.” quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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“No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.”

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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