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• Accept good advice gracefully⁠—as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  Oscar Wilde1854–1900An Ideal Husband (1895)

• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech at Salthill (5 October 1864)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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