Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The madman’s explanation of a thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense satisfactory. Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable[.]
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Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
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Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
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There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
—G. K. Chesterton
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
—G. K. Chesterton