Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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