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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to read more
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
Ha read more
They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
Ha de ser de la muger.]
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly read more
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where read more
Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where several worthies make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For read more
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small thanks are still the market price,
Even where the article at highest rate is.