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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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