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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

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I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

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In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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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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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

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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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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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