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

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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

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I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

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Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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Adventure is the champagne of life.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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

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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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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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