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" I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. "
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" The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. "
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" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. "
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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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" How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. "
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" Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. "
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" The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. "
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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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" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "
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" Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. "
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" An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. "
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" The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. "
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" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "
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" And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. "
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" The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. "
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" The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. "
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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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" Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. "
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" The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. "
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" Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. "
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" All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. "
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" One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. "
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" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "
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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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