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Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

John William Mackail

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John William Mackail

John William Mackail

Born: August 26, 1859
Died: December 13, 1945 (aged 86)
Bio: John William Mackail was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer.
Known for:
  1. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
  2. The Life of William Morris (1899)
  3. Biblia Innocentium (1892)
  4. Latin Literature (1895)
  5. Lectures on Poetry (1911)

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