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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Game Man Money Sick Win Yourself
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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Abandonment Ambitious Defeat Failure Occasion Philosophy Purpose
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Beginning Knowledge Mistake Philosophy Wisdom
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Acceptance Audience Goodness People
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
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Alcohol Bad Drink Hard Time Life
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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Different Moral Nation Reading
Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Hate Love People Philosophy Violence
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Choice Deep Enemy Love Philosophy
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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Comedy Identity Joke Myself Perfection
You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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Best Dreams Goodness Life Right Wake Up Yourself
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
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
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Fortune Policy Wasted Time
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 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 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
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Deep Necessary Tolerance
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
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
I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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Computer Enough Food Money Myself Need Right Technology Yourself
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.
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Betrayal Crime Desire Fake Fools Man Philosophy
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
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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