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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

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They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

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

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

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A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

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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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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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