# General Life Advice For Others

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice-for-others/404997>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 22, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice-for-others/404997 "2007-05-22T00:14:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice-for-others/404997/121 "2008-01-29T17:34:29Z")

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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” -Charles Dickens

Don’t make other people’s lives more miserable unless you’ve got a really good reason.

If it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice-for-others/404997/122 "2008-01-29T18:50:04Z")

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If you chat with zombies, they’ll have you over for lunch.

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