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

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

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