To advise is not to compel
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A selected quote by Anton Chekhov.
To advise is not to compel
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?