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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An editorial interpretation.
Coleridge compares advice to falling snow, suggesting that the gentler and more softly it's delivered, the longer it lingers and the more deeply it settles into a person's mind. It's a poetic observation about how subtlety, rather than force, allows guidance to truly take hold.
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