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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
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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Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
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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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
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Keri Hulme, The Bone People, 1983
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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Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
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Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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