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• We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

  Jules Renard

  Interest

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• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

  Germaine Greer

  Children, War, Love You

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• I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Looks, Lasts

  Author Q&A by Penguin Random House, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• If we still advise we shall never do.

  Elizabeth I

  Stills, Ifs

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• And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

  Robert Grosseteste

  August, Land, Corn

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• I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

  Bruce Robinson

  Men, Hair, Brain

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  James Callaghan

  Party, Government, Law

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• Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

  Leo Rosten

  Philosophical, Heart, Sight

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• We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Team, Guilty

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• It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Discipline, Advice

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 27 (Mr Bagnet)

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• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  Major Taylor

  Play, Careers, Practice

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I always advise people never to give advice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Inspirational, Humorous, People

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Wise, Simple, Practice

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.275, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, People, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jun 22, 2012

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• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Years, Symphony, Twenties

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.

  Harvey Keitel

  Talking, Ideas, Choices

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• If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Children, People, Parent

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• I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

  William Boyd

  Judgement, Doctrine, Tranquility

  William Boyd, John Costello (1991). “Ten days to destiny: the secret story of the Hess peace initiative and British efforts to strike a deal with Hitler”, William Morrow & Co

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• I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

  Virginia Woolf

  Way, Want, Married

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.485, Delphi Classics

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• I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

  Robin McKinley

  Good Luck, Medicine, Choices

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• Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• People, to maintain their self-esteem, tend to believe they are above average on all positive qualities - height, income, intelligence, sense of humor, negotiating ability, you name it. The problem is that if we are going to really build our skills, we need to know which skills are most deficient. So, I advise people to find confidantes to tell them the truth. And then act on that knowledge to build the abilities they need to be more successful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Believe, Successful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  Barbara Bush

  Vow

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