It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople 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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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