““Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist
Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.
“The worst men often give the best advice.”
Festus (1839)
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Reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.
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Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
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Source: William R(ounseville) Alger, American clergyman and writer [1822-1905]; reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.
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Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 607.
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Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Source: The Woman in White
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Our America (1881)
Context: One must have faith in the best in men and distrust the worst. One must allow the best to be shown so that it reveals and prevails over the worst. Nations should have a pillory for whoever stirs up useless hate, and another for whoever fails to tell them the truth in time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
1890s, The Path of the Law (1897)
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples.
Maxim 93.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan