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He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

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It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

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I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

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