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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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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
I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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Enough Funny Myself Natural Reality Sound
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Correct Discover Improvement Mistake Yourself
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Fortune Policy Wasted Time
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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Afraid Destroy People Trust
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Acknowledgement Hypocrisy Shame
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
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
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves
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 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
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Action Change Practice Principle Thinking
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
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
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
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
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Intelligence People Poor Stupidity Thinking
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
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
Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Alcohol Bad Drink Hard Time Life
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Behavior Fate Fools Ignorance Tragedy
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong Weakness
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
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Beginning Knowledge Mistake Philosophy Wisdom

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