"Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping."
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"I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter."
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"O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing."
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"He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many."
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"Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose."
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"Give full attention and devotion to each act."
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"Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it."
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"It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself."
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"The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation."
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"Nothing is given so profusely as advice."
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"Beware of long arguments and long beards."
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"Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once."
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"It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides."
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"If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself."
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"People don't want advice...only corroboration."
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"All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
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"Good but rarely came from good advice."
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"Take it from me, its hip to be square."
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"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."
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"Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new."
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