Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Two complimentary views of advice

Sometimes glib aphorisms are contradictory but on other occasions they are comfortably complimentary as in this case.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't - Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least - Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield letter to his son 29th January 1748

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