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extasia 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What makes a person seem wise?

Wisdom is taking your own advice.

Words that I’ve found easier to accept the value of than to extoll. Trying is the first step to failing I guess;)

readthenotes1 22 days ago [–]

I know someone of whom it is said "hen never takes anyone's advice but hens own, and it is invariably wrong".

Hen is in hens 60s and would be homeless except for the charity of his aged (and otherwise estranged) parent.

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