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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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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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You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

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I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

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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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He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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