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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

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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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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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