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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

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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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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

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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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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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