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Nov 07, 2020

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Nov 07, 2020

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Cell
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Nov 07, 2020

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Miracle
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Nov 07, 2020

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Educated
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Nov 07, 2020

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Mother
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Nov 07, 2020

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Poor
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Change
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Nov 07, 2020

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Mouth
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Nov 07, 2020

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Puns
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Nov 07, 2020

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Journalism
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Nov 07, 2020

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Enemies
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Nov 07, 2020

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Hurt
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Nov 07, 2020

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

God
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Intellectual
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Nov 07, 2020

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Happiness
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Nov 07, 2020

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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