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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

Norm MacDonald

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
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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Adversity Friendship Oneself Prosperity Reason True
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
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Activity Ambition Energy Greatness Happiness
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
Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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Battle Day Death Funny Hospital Man Myself Old Sick
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
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong Weakness
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Best Kindness Love
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
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Form Jealous Philosophy Sweet
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Best Mindset Praise Success
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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Battle Courageous Defeat Failure Hero Himself Lost Man Sick
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
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

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

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