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183 quotesIf we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Service
John Adams
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Marriage
Joseph Addison
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Friends and Friendship
Joseph Addison
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Advice
Aeschylus
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Advice
Aesop
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Advice
William R. Alger
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Cleverness
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Never give advice in a crowd.
Advice
Arabian Proverb
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We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.
Army and Navy
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Prosperity
Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice.
Advice
Philip James Bailey
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Advice
Ivern Ball
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Greed
George Bancroft
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A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]
Advice
Bible
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Business
Ambrose Bierce
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Advice
Josh Billings
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Bolingbroke
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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Fame
Daniel J. Boorstin
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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Vice
Thomas Edward Brown
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Letters
Lord Byron
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Greed
Lord Byron
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That low vice, curiosity!
Curiosity
Lord Byron
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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
Business
Ruben Cardenas
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Age and Aging
Cato The Elder
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Experience
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun