"But, dear aunt," Isabel broke out, "I have no one, no one to advise me!"
"Then count yourself fortunate," Mrs. Touchett implacably replied, presenting to her niece the blank aspect of a sphinx. "Advice is another term for mischief-making, and anyone who asks for it deserves the consequences. One cannot be told how to live, my girl—and one shouldn't wish to be."
—John Banville, Mrs. Osmond
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