Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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