There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne 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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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