I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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 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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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