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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Advice

"Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Advice

"Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Advice

"The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs."

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
Advice

"I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there."

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Martin Buber Philosopher
Advice

"I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Advice

"Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
Advice

"The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself."

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