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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like…

Quote byPhilip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield · 1694–1773

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), 29 January 1748.

English (original)

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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