Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Eugenics 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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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