To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The past is not what it was.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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