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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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