The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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