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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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You can't have the family farm without the family.

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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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