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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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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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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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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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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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"The secret of happiness is something to do."
Happiness

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
Advice

"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."
Life

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
Nature

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."
Work

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."
Action

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
Friendship

"Leap, and the net will appear."
Will

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
Love

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
History
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