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"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
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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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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"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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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
War
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Food
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
Thought
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
Power
"Books are humanity in print."
Books
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
Friendship
"The affair made men feel larger than life."
Psychology
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
Motivation
"Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous."
Society
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