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

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
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"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."


"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."


"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."


"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
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