“Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
“If you ask for advice, listen, instead of interrupting and debating why it’s wrong.”
1974
Last update June 3, 2021.
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Are renovated and withered by the dews and frosts:
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Are missing him and thinking of him?
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