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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
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
You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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Best Dreams Goodness Life Right Wake Up Yourself
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
Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Alcohol Bad Drink Hard Time Life
I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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Care Exercise Preference Sex Win Yourself
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong Weakness
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Form Jealous Philosophy Sweet
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
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
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Fortune Policy Wasted Time
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
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
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Acceptance Audience Goodness People

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