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"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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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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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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Personal Development
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
Power
"Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect."
Life
"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
Age
"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
Truth
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
Revolution
"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."
Media
"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."
Inquiry
"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."
Literature
"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
Change
"Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia."
Culture
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