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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"
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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
"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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Personal Development
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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Personal Development
"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
Creativity
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Man
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
Personal
"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
Success
"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
Environment
"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
Failure
"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
People
"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."
Advice
"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
Age
"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
Business
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