Alexandre Dumas quote about advice from The Three Musketeers - People, in general . . . only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.
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People, in general . . . only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.
 Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844). copy citation

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Author Alexandre Dumas
Source The Three Musketeers
Topic advice blaming
Date 1844
Language English
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“Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him. Athos believed that everyone should be left to his own free will. He never gave advice but when it was asked, and even then he required to be asked twice.
«People, in general,» he said, «only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.»
Porthos arrived a minute after d'Artagnan. The four friends were reunited.
The four countenances expressed four different feelings: that of Porthos, tranquillity; that of d'Artagnan, hope; that of Aramis, uneasiness; that of Athos, carelessness.” source
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