Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
In all the thousands of times I have asked other people for advice, I never yet got the advice I wanted.
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Armadale
by
Wilkie Collins
"A spoken word, Sir Abraham, is often of more value than volumes of written advice."
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The Warden
by
Anthony Trollope
"Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools."
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."
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David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
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An Ideal Husband
by
Oscar Wilde
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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Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott