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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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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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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.

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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

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Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

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These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

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