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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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