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

Norm MacDonald

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.
NORM MACDONALD

Ego Expression Imitation Joy Opinion Person Satisfaction See Worth
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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Crime Evil Greatness Injustice Man Practice Success Thinking World
Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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Battle Day Death Funny Hospital Man Myself Old Sick
A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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Education Idiot People Poor Rich Stupidity Writing
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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Life Philosophy Principle Solid Wisdom
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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Device Equality Knowledge Person Practice
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Communication Fools Practice Report Understand
I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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End Fantasy Friendship Love Order Politics Simplicity Sports World
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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Adversity Better Desire Destroy Necessary Prosperity Ruin
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Acknowledgement Hypocrisy Shame
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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Betrayal Crime Desire Fake Fools Man Philosophy
They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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Afraid Dog Funny Identity Myself Reality Worry
The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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Action Affect Deep Future Ourselves Regret

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