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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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