Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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