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" With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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" Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. "

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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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" A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. "

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" Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. "

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" A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. "

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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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" If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. "

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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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" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

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" Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. "

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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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" And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. "

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" When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. "

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" What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. "

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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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" 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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" 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 honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. "

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