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" Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. "

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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 regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. "

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" Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. "

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" When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? "

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" The simplification of anything is always sensational. "

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" The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. "

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" A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. "

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" Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. "

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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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" Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. "

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" In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. "

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