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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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Personal Development

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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Personal Development

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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Personal Development

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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Personal Development

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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Personal Development

"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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Personal Development

"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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Personal Development

"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin."
Awareness

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."
Hell

"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."
Life

"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."
God

"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."
Action

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."
Beauty

"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
Advice

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
Life

"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!"
Friendship

"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."
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