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Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

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Mark Twain: We are always...

Mark Twain: We are always...

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon...

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G K Chesterton: Fable is more...

G K Chesterton: Fable is more...

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million...

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G K Chesterton: A teacher who...

G K Chesterton: A teacher who...

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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G K Chesterton: A large section...

G K Chesterton: A large section...

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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G K Chesterton: Courage is getting...

G K Chesterton: Courage is getting...

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

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G K Chesterton: The folk that...

G K Chesterton: The folk that...

The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots;
They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the...

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G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ...

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G K Chesterton: A stiff apology...

G K Chesterton: A stiff apology...

A stiff apology is a second insult. . . . The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been...

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G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet;
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms...

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G K Chesterton: To be clever...

G K Chesterton: To be clever...

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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G K Chesterton: Ritual will always...

G K Chesterton: Ritual will always...

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our...

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G K Chesterton: If an angel...

G K Chesterton: If an angel...

If an angel out of heaven
Brings you other things to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour...

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G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken...

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S J Perelman: There were times,...

S J Perelman: There were times,...

There were times, when I drove along the Sunset Strip and looked at those buildings or when I watched the fashionable...

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G K Chesterton: In matters of...

G K Chesterton: In matters of...

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you...

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G K Chesterton: The old idea...

G K Chesterton: The old idea...

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that...

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G K Chesterton: The full value...

G K Chesterton: The full value...

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted...

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Philip Sidney: To be ambitious...

Philip Sidney: To be ambitious...

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of...

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George Eliot: In all private...

George Eliot: In all private...

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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