An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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