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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

—Randy Pausch

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.

—Publilius Syrus

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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

—Pierre Charron

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

—Hannah Whitall Smith

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

—Gore Vidal

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Never give advice unless asked.

—German Proverb

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

—Erica Jong

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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

—English proverb

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Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Ask advice only of your equals.

—Danish Proverb

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People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

—Anne Tyler

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