All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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