Eureka Reporter | 1902-11-28 | Page 3 | Folly of Giving Advice

FOLLY OF GIVING ADVICE under any circumstances it Is a most thankless occupation giving advice la is rather a foolish practice for the reason that people do about what they please and they sel dom wish or heed advice that does not urge them to do just what they wish and intend to do the man that vol i steers to give advice runs a risk of being told to mind his own business or at least of having his advice re coldly and disregarded without apology giving advice even when request ed Is generally a thankless service which a wise man Is backward in doing As a rule people who invite advice really desire encouragement unless one tells them what they wish to hear one is very likely to find him self in a wrangle and to have his ad vice scouted and contemned and when one does tell them what they wish to bear and they act accordingly the adviser is held responsible for the result it it turns out ill although gets neither credit nor gratitude if it turns out well the giver of advice Is aw always I 1 ays blamed on account ot of what might have been each of us has a good deal to do it he attends to his own affairs makes up his own mind and watches his own ou siness and the less we have to do with the business of other men and the less advice we give the more corn com fordable for table happy and esteemed we shall be