“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“How ill, alas! do want and shame agree!”
XVII. 347 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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Αἰδὼς δ' οὐκ ἀγαθὴ κεχρημένῳ ἀνδρὶ παρεῖναι.
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