Your information is correct enough--there is nothing to be said against that; it simply is that you are not lucky with it." I would that I had followed his advice always; I would have saved myself and other people much disaster.

I see no reason why it should be, but so it is.

If I instruct a man as to the best route between London and Rome, he loses his luggage in Switzerland, or is nearly shipwrecked off Dover.
If I counsel him in the purchase of a camera, he gets run in by the German police for photographing fortresses.

I once took a deal of trouble to explain to a man how to marry his deceased wife's sister at Stockholm.

I found out for him the time the boat left Hull and the best hotels to stop at.