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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

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Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

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

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A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

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I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

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There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

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If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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