“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Some men are much better and wiser than others, but experience seems to show that hardly any man is so much better than or wiser than others that he can permanently stand the test of irresponsible power over them.”
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IX, The Future Of Liberalism, p. 118.
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