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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
Advice
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Preposterous
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Priceless

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