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" Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. "
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" An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. "
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" An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. "
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" The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. "
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" If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. "
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" We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. "
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" The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. "
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" If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. "
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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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" Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. "
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" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "
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" I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. "
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" Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. "
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" And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. "
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" Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. "
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" A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. "
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" A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. "
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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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" 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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" The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. "
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" The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. "
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" Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. "
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" The only defensible war is a war of defense. "
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" The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. "
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" Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. "
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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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" The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. "
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