It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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