It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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