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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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

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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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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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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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But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

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