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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Activity Ambition Energy Greatness Happiness
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Game Greatness Money
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
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
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
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Care Carry Force Limitation Restriction Worst Youth
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Action Change Practice Principle Thinking
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
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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Grief Man Mistake Virtue
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
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Beginning Knowledge Mistake Philosophy 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
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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Adversity Dangerous Escape Reason Suffering Understand
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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Believe Discover Life Moon Yourself

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