Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
NORM MACDONALDA 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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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.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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