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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

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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
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Correct Discover Improvement Mistake 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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Care Learning Man Myself
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
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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Ideas Memories Myself Reality Strong Word
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Behavior Fate Fools Ignorance Tragedy
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong Weakness
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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Adversity Friendship Oneself Prosperity Reason True
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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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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