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Etymology: from Latin ad-, to + visum, past participle of videre, to see. Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
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The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
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A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.
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The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
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The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
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The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
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A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
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