Advice Quotes
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We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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When a man has been guilty of any vice of folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice til they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give he weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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