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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Norm MacDonald

Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Correct Discover Improvement Mistake Yourself
Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Hate Love People Philosophy Violence
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
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
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Enjoyment Love Man Small Wind
They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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Afraid Dog Funny Identity Myself Reality Worry
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Communication Fools Practice Report Understand
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
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
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Acceptance Audience Goodness People
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Advice Man Opinion
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Intelligence People Poor Stupidity Thinking
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Himself Praise Search
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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Advice Avoid Determination Distance Himself Man Opinion Pursue
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

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

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