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" There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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" A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. "
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" Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. "
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" We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. "
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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 Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. "
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