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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
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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Education Man School Time
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason

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