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.
NORM MACDONALDLiberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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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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