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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world.

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I am at one with my duality.

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

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