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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

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It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

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It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

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

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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

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You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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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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