When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
Baltasar Gracian The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A word spoken in due season, how good it is!
King Solomon Proverbs 15:23
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He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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The aged in council, the young in action.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Advice to a fool goes in one ear and out the other.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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