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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
"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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Personal Development
"Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regulartly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices."
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"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."
Nature
"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."
Man
"The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby."
Character
"Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness."
Society
"Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end."
Love
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence."
Love
"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."
Nature
"For Man to tell how human life began is hard, for who himself beginning knew?"
History
"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
Struggle
"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
Virtue
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