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Advice Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
- I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
- Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
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