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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

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We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

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

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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

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Progress is the mother of all problems.

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