When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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