A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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