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This reads as a wry warning about advice that flatters the giver more than it helps the listener. It suggests that guidance is often useful only when it becomes generosity toward someone else, while the person offering it may be least able to follow it. It lands in family arguments, office mentoring, or any moment when someone preaches what they cannot practice.
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About Oscar Wilde
Irish author, poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright of the late 19th century. He became one of London’s most popular and influential dramatists in the early 1890s, and is closely associated with the Aestheticism movement. He is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his epigrams, plays and children’s stories. His writing often combines wit, style and pointed observation, and his reputation is also shaped by his 1895 criminal conviction for gross indecency and for practising homosexual acts.
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Books by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
His only novel, full of quotable lines.