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Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

William Shakespeare on advice

Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by Ophelia

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