He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
NORM MACDONALDA 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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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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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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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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