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• Advice to young men: Be ascetic, and if you can't be ascetic, then at least be asceptic.
• Perhaps I have given you the wrong impression. A wizard's life is not all fame, fortune and frivolity.
  There must be periods of rest as well, when a wizard should find a safe retreat where he can seclude himself from sorcery and restore his health and vitality in the proper ascetic atmosphere....
• The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• If you can distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don't need advice.
  -- Van Roy's Second Law...
• Bart: Unckie Herb, what advice would you give to a young boy who would most likely become a bum like yourself?
  Herb: Discarded pizza boxes are an inexpensive source of cheese....
• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. -- Cicero
• Be Yourself" is about the worst advice you can give to people. -- Mark Twai
• Expect the worst, it's the least you can do.