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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

Norm MacDonald

Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Alcohol Bad Drink Hard Time Life
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Desire Praise Yourself
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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Grief Man Mistake Virtue
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Activity Ambition Energy Greatness Happiness
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
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Himself Praise Search
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Game Greatness Money
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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Enough Funny Myself Natural Reality Sound
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Acknowledgement Hypocrisy Shame
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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Adversity Dangerous Escape Reason Suffering Understand
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Choice Deep Enemy Love Philosophy
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Philosophy Reason Shame Virtue
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
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

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