The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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