The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911) American evangelist, suffragist, author
Letter (1902)

In Philadelphia Quaker (1950) ed. Logan Piersoll Smith


 
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