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“The first piece of advice is a cautionary one,” he said. “It comes from the man who rose in his time to become the most powerful layman in the entire British kingdom of his day, the masterful Thomas Wolsey, second only to the legendary Henry VIII himself in his influence over the king’s realm.”
Elder Holland shared Wolsey’s story as a warning against “maneuvering the ladder of success so wantonly that you discover in the end you had it leaning against the wrong wall.”