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" A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. "
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" You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. "
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" With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. "
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" A yawn is a silent shout. "
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" White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. "
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" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "
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" Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. "
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" Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. "
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" If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. "
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" One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. "
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" Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. "
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" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "
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" How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. "
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" The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. "
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" People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. "
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" 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' "
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" Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. "
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" There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. "
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" An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. "
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" The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. "
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" A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. "
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" It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. "
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