No Longer Able To Provide A Bad Example

Old people like to give advice as solace for no longer being able to provide a bad example. — Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld.

Sometimes I can’t help myself. I’m around my children and now my grandchildren and I find myself offering advice, guidance, or sometimes telling them what to do and not do. I should carry around the above quote in my wallet to remind myself every time I open my mouth.

Part of becoming wiser with time is learning to offer one’s opinion when asked, and not before.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, The East End and “Light of Day” are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller.