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“We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 378.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 407836762a9fb9e0e2cfed41dba7ed446d247f4ad0a6d05b34bc92304150bd59
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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