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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
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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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Desire Praise Yourself
In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Best Kindness Love
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Acknowledgement Hypocrisy Shame
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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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
Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Hate Love People Philosophy Violence
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Game Man Money Sick Win Yourself
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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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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