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The advice columns that mocked their readers

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If you thought modern internet trolls were vicious, seventeenth-century advice columnists were significantly worse. The very first publications to take reader questions did not offer sympathetic guidance; they existed purely to publish the readers' desperate letters and openly mock their personal failures in print.

The advice columns that mocked their readers
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