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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

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

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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

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Progress is the mother of all problems.

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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. 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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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