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Only poor men get hanged.

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A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

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This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

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Progress is the mother of all problems.

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

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These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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