“Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”

—  Tom Stoppard

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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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