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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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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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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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$Norm MacDonald Quote - In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.$

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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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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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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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.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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