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Show FOLLY OF OIVINQ ADVICE. Undsr Any Clrcumstsnces It Is a Most Thsnkless Occupstlon. Giving advice Is rather a foolish practice, for tho reason Chat people do about whnt they pleaao, and thoy seldom sel-dom wish or heed advice that does not urge them lo do Just what they wish and intend to do. Tho man that volunteers vol-unteers to glvo ndvlro runs a rlak of being told to mind his own business or. at leaat, of having hla advice received re-ceived coldly and disregarded without apology. (living advlco, ovon when requested, request-ed, Is generally a thanklcaa service which a wise man Is backward lu doing. As a rule, people who invite advlco renlly desire oucourngnment. Unless one tells them what thoy wlub to hear one Is very likely to And him-self him-self In a wrangle and to have his advice ad-vice scouted and contemned. And when one does tell them what they wish to hear and they act accordingly, the Jl'siiuTlf It torne out III. although get ueltber credit nor gratitude If It turns out well. The giver of advice la always blamed on account of what might have beou. Each of us has a good deal to do If he attonds to bis own affulrs, makes up his own mind and watches bla own business, and the less we have to do with the bualnoas of other men, and tne less advice we give, the more comfortable, com-fortable, happy and estoomed we shall be. |