Gilbert Chesterton

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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A. A. Milne

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

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Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

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Robert Green Ingersoll

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

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Joseph Addison

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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Lao-Tzu

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.

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Woody Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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H.L. Mencken

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

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Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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