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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Desire Praise Yourself
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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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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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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Advice Avoid Determination Distance Himself Man Opinion Pursue
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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