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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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