FastSaying
Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus, Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Advice
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