Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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