One day, when you are old and think of yourself as wise, you will feel an urge to put together a little book of your attempts at advice. You will be tempted to

One day, when you are old and think of yourself as wise, you will feel an urge to put together a little book of your attempts at advice. You will be tempted to divide this book into sections, with quotes from various dead white men, all of which lack closing quotes to match their opening quotes. Except for one, which has closing quotes. None of these quotes will be multi-paragraph quotes, which is the only case in which any grammar guides suggest unbalanced closing and opening quotation marks. Resist this temptation. Bonus points: Also resist the temptation to decorate the chapter headers with a red swash, that makes them look a pack of Marlboros. Who the hell even smokes any more, grandpa?