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"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
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"With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal."

"Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness."

"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world."

"Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me."

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."

"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."

"The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege."

"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."

"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
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