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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Fighting, Half

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• Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

  Sally Quinn

  Husband, Interesting, Style

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Slumps, Asks

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• I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Perfect, Sowing, Harvest

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Secret, Burden, Troublesome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

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• When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Humble, Ignorant

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• I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

  Howard Pyle

  Artist, Giving, Criticism

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• Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Men, Talking, Brain

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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• "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  "American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 791, 1955.

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• He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Giving, Example

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• When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

  Saul Bellow

  Funny, Humor, Mathematical

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• I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Giving, Sometimes

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• Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother And Daughter

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• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

  Wilson Mizner

  Wisdom, Giving, Profit

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• Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Balance, Needs, Welcome

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• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

  Carolyn Wells

  Blessed, Giving, Giving Advice

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

  Joseph Addison

  Literature, Good Advice, Reluctance

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.208

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• Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Inspiration, Oil

  "Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised".

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• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

  Al Franken

  Encounters, Comedy, Belief

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.16, Penguin

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Profit, Ability

  "Maximes Et Réflexions Morales".

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