Cooperation is always preferable, but you really should be prepared to go it alone.

I don't mind helping out so long as people are willing to listen and it doesn't tax my resources. The problem I have with most of them is they aren't until it is too late.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)