"Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing."
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"Unsolicited advice is always self-serving."
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"I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything."
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"Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil."
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"If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
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"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead."
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"A good example has twice the value of good advice"
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"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
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"Don't be an agnostic. Be something."
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"To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose."
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"If you can't be kind, at least be vague."
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"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
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"I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice."
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"There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business."
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"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."
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"Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice."
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"My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences."
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"But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls."
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". . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
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