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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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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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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

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There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

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Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

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

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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Progress is the mother of problems.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

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