There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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