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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

G. K. Chesterton

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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