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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

Norm MacDonald

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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Education Idiot People Poor Rich Stupidity Writing
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Enjoyment Love Man Small Wind
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
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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Imperfection Man Ourselves Praise Seek Virtue
Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Hate Love People Philosophy Violence
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Deep Necessary Tolerance
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
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
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Advice Man Opinion
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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Battle Courageous Defeat Failure Hero Himself Lost Man Sick
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
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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Different Moral Nation Reading
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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Believe Discover Life Moon Yourself

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