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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

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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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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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