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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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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Correct Discover Improvement Mistake Yourself
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Philosophy Reason Shame Virtue
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Fortune Policy Wasted Time
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
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Himself Praise Search
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
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
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Desire Praise Yourself
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
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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Education Idiot People Poor Rich Stupidity Writing
You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Care Learning Man Myself
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Intelligence People Poor Stupidity Thinking
As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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Body Heart Occasion Passion Soul Tranquility
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 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
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Compliment Confidence Friendship Greatness Young
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
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
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
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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Ideas Memories Myself Reality Strong Word
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
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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Crime Evil Greatness Injustice Man Practice Success Thinking World
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
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

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