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. CHESTERTONThere 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.
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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.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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