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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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"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!"
Friendship
"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
Advice
"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."
Life
"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."
Family
"The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed."
Old
"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."
Hell
"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
Advice
"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."
God
"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."
Love
"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."
Action
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