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Few people love with the violence they hate.

Norm MacDonald

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
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Deep Necessary Tolerance
I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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End Fantasy Friendship Love Order Politics Simplicity Sports World
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 often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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Adversity Better Desire Destroy Necessary Prosperity Ruin
You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Care Learning Man Myself
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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Adversity Dangerous Escape Reason Suffering Understand
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 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
Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Alcohol Bad Drink Hard Time Life
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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Difference Fight Fun Myself See
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
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
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Advice Man Opinion
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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Ego Expression Imitation Joy Opinion Person Satisfaction See Worth

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