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The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

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But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

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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 home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

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Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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