Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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 don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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