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“Many receive advice, few profit by it.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 149.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 73566308f469a567203683c4cf0743b118bcf26c9d6f65b0d436376b03cf568c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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