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"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

Harper Lee, American Novelist

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"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Conscience, Majority

"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Conscience, Majority

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."

Family, Father, Thought, Man

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

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"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."

Jack Adams, Canadian Athlete

"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Advice, Concern, Man, Woman

"Don't give advice unless you're asked."

Amy Alcott, American Athlete

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Advice, Example

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