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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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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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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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