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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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