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G K Chesterton: A new philosophy...

G K Chesterton: A new philosophy...

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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G K Chesterton: Talk about the...

G K Chesterton: Talk about the...

Talk about the pews and steeples
And the cash that goes therewith!
But the souls of Christian peoples . ....

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G K Chesterton: It is not...

G K Chesterton: It is not...

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. . . . Why do we laugh? Because...

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G K Chesterton: Soldiers have many...

G K Chesterton: Soldiers have many...

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than...

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G K Chesterton: If the barricades...

G K Chesterton: If the barricades...

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the...

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G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all...

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G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in...

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G K Chesterton: Adventure is the...

G K Chesterton: Adventure is the...

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Albert Schweitzer: Our age is...

Albert Schweitzer: Our age is...

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its...

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Albert Schweitzer: I have always...

Albert Schweitzer: I have always...

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an...

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Albert Schweitzer: Man must cease...

Albert Schweitzer: Man must cease...

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal...

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Jerome K Jerome: The shy man...

Jerome K Jerome: The shy man...

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain...

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Honore de Balzac: Bureaucracy is a...

Honore de Balzac: Bureaucracy is a...

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: My name is...

Arthur Conan Doyle: My name is...

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It has long...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It has long...

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The lowest and...

Arthur Conan Doyle: The lowest and...

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and...

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Henry David Thoreau: Waves of a...

Henry David Thoreau: Waves of a...

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy...

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Charles Dickens: Dollars! All their...

Charles Dickens: Dollars! All their...

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars....

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Charles Dickens: A literary man...

Charles Dickens: A literary man...

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Source: (Mr Boffin on Silas Wegg) Our Mutual...

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Charles Dickens: She's the only...

Charles Dickens: She's the only...

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a...

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