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He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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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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[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

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Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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