A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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