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• With those who follow a different way it is useless to take counsel.
• Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. -- Ben Frankli
• Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)...
• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
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• Take the money and run.
• Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself.
  -- Seneca...
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