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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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.

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

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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

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

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

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.

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,...

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

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

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