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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

"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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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regulartly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People

"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
Nothing

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
Love

"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
Love

"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
Philosophy

"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
Desire
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