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Hannah Whitall Smith: The true secret...

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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.

Source: In Philadelphia Quaker, 1950.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith, (Feb 7 1832-1911), US evangelist, reformer, suffragist, author; She championed feminist causes and the right of young women to attend college; co-founded Women's Christian Temperance Union.


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