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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

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The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

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I am at one with my duality.

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There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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