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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

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