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"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."
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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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"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."
Trust
"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."
Advice
"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult."
Man
"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor."
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"A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy."
Fool
"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."
Trust
"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."
Life
"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
Truth
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
Friendship
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