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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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