There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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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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