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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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