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G K Chesterton: With any recovery...

G K Chesterton: With any recovery...

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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G K Chesterton: The madman is...

G K Chesterton: The madman is...

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his...

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G K Chesterton: I tell you...

G K Chesterton: I tell you...

I tell you naught for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the...

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G K Chesterton: White. . ....

G K Chesterton: White. . ....

White. . . is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as...

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G K Chesterton: A building is...

G K Chesterton: A building is...

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a...

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G K Chesterton: Where does a...

G K Chesterton: Where does a...

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the...

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G K Chesterton: And goodness only...

G K Chesterton: And goodness only...

And goodness only knowses
The Noselessness of Man.


Source: The Song of...

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G K Chesterton: Those thinkers who...

G K Chesterton: Those thinkers who...

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for...

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E B White: Weather is a...

E B White: Weather is a...

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows...

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George Eliot: To act with...

George Eliot: To act with...

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...

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George Eliot: But human experience...

George Eliot: But human experience...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...

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George Eliot: In the vain...

George Eliot: In the vain...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Source: Romola, bk....

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George Eliot: In the multitude...

George Eliot: In the multitude...

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the...

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George Eliot: A woman's heart...

George Eliot: A woman's heart...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness...

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George Eliot: My own experience...

George Eliot: My own experience...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...

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George Eliot: It will never...

George Eliot: It will never...

It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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E M Forster: Spoon feeding in...

E M Forster: Spoon feeding in...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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E M Forster: The people I...

E M Forster: The people I...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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Christopher Morley: People like to...

Christopher Morley: People like to...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster,...

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Mark Twain: Work consists of...

Mark Twain: Work consists of...

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to...

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