There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. We look upon the man who gives it us as offering an affront to our understanding, and treating us like children or idiots. We consider the instruction as an implicit censure, and the zeal which any one shows for our good on such an occasion as a piece of presumption or impertinence.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman

Essay (1712-10-17), The Spectator, No. 512
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