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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

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The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

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It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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