Variant: As a general rule... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Source: The Three Musketeers
“Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.”
Alphabet Juice (2008), p. 17.
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