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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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Confidence Easy Man Temptation Violence
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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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Comedy Funny Laughter Surprise Yourself
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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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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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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Afraid Destroy People Trust
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Acceptance Audience Goodness People
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Philosophy Reason Shame Virtue
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Compliment Confidence Friendship Greatness Young
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Behavior Hate Love Mental People Violence
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
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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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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