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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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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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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 think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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Body Heart Occasion Passion Soul Tranquility
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Best Kindness Love
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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$Norm MacDonald Quote - In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.$

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
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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