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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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"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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"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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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"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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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."
Death
"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."
Humor
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
Animals
"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."
Love
"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."
People
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."
Man
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Happiness
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