Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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 scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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