Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
NORM MACDONALDI think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I don’t have any ambition.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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