"Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen."
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"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
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"I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely."
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"I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice."
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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."
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"We give advice, we do not inspire conduct."
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"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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"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."
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"The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me."
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"They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely."
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"Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant."
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"We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice."
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"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
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"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."
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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."
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"He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person."
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"Fall mountains, just don't fall on me."
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"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does."
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