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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

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The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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