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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

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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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Mathematics Opinion Stupidity Subject Teacher Yourself
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
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
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Himself Praise Search
Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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Comedy Funny Laughter Surprise Yourself
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
All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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Death Life Money Myself People Thinking Try
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Behavior Hate Love Mental People Violence
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
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
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Action Change Practice Principle Thinking
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
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Fortune Policy Wasted Time
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
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

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