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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

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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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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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Atheism is too theological.

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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