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

Norm MacDonald

The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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Action Affect Deep Future Ourselves Regret
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves
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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Communication Fools Practice Report Understand
Ever see this? It’s a homeless guy but he’s got a dog… The dog’s really thrilled with this idea. The dog’s going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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Dog Friendship Funny Home Ideas Man See Thrill Walk Yourself
In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Best Kindness Love
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
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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Ego Expression Imitation Joy Opinion Person Satisfaction See Worth
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
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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Device Equality Knowledge Person Practice
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Deep Necessary Tolerance
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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Advice Avoid Determination Distance Himself Man Opinion Pursue
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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Life Philosophy Principle Solid Wisdom
I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Difference Fight Fun Myself See
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
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Care Carry Force Limitation Restriction Worst Youth
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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Afraid Dog Funny Identity Myself Reality Worry
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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Comedy Identity Joke Myself Perfection
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
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Philosophy Reason Shame Virtue
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
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
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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Adversity Friendship Oneself Prosperity Reason True
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Acceptance Audience Goodness People
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

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

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