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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
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"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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"Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don't be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don't be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!"
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"It's not time to worry yet."
Philosophy
"Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced."
Society
"Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions."
Creativity
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
Society
"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
Success
"Things are always better in the morning."
Life
"We can't always have our druthers."
Life
"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
Family
"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
Morality
"We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple."
Trust
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