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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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$Norm MacDonald Quote - In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.$

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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Mathematics Opinion Stupidity Subject Teacher Yourself
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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