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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: The paradox of...

G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep...

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G K Chesterton: The men that...

G K Chesterton: The men that...

The men that worked for England
They have their graves at home.


Source: Elegy in...

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G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

Literature has always been allegorical.

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

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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: When you break...

G K Chesterton: When you break...

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small...

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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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Henry David Thoreau: Almost any man...

Henry David Thoreau: Almost any man...

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

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Henry David Thoreau: If we will...

Henry David Thoreau: If we will...

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their marriage were not perceived to have any...

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Mark Twain: There was never...

Mark Twain: There was never...

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is...

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Mark Twain: An ecstasy is...

Mark Twain: An ecstasy is...

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Source: The...

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Mark Twain: War talk by...

Mark Twain: War talk by...

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon...

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Mark Twain: Don't, like the...

Mark Twain: Don't, like the...

Don't, like the cat, try to get more out of an experience than there is in it. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove...

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Mark Twain: I am admonished...

Mark Twain: I am admonished...

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977...

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Charles Dickens: Professionally he declines...

Charles Dickens: Professionally he declines...

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Source:...

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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: I've a pretty...

Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself...

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Charles Dickens: Not to put...

Charles Dickens: Not to put...

Not to put too fine a point upon it.

Source: (Mr Snagsby) Bleak House, Ch. 11
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Charles Dickens: I am always...

Charles Dickens: I am always...

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the...

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