From Processed World, 2001.

From Presentations with Persuasion by Thompson and Thompson, 1990.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

"And don't run round the fairy ring in the wrong direction -- Wid[d]ershins -- the opposte way to the sun.  It is ever so dangerous!  Don't forget this."  From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.

"Don't argue; eat pineapple."  From Cavalcade, 1943.

"Many thanks for your advice, dear lion."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

"Advice from a caterpillar."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

They're being facetious here, but it's common advice.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

"Have a good time!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.

"Be grateful that you do not know everything."  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.

From Lighted Pathway, 1972.

"Read too little or too much.  Whichever will leave you most confused or asleep."  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

From Lighted Pathway, 1975.

From the Wartburg Trumpet, 1969.

Except for the so-called "modern" variety, "don't be afraid of art!"  From Together, 1959.

From Lighted Pathway, 1967.

From Bluff Your Way In Poetry by Nick Yapp, 1989.  (However, we don't say we've spent three days and nights reading The New Apocalyptics.  Rather, we say -- truthfully -- that we've been reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead.)

"Don't lie to your wife."  From Indiana University's 1923 yearbook.