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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll 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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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