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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

Norm MacDonald

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
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 really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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End Fantasy Friendship Love Order Politics Simplicity Sports World
I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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Dog Funny Material Myself Protection Value
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
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong 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
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Intelligence People Poor Stupidity Thinking
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
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Himself Praise Search
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Behavior Hate Love Mental People Violence
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Beginning Knowledge Mistake Philosophy Wisdom
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
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

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