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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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