Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around
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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men
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The simplification of anything is always sensational
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions
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Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another? by
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people
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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 only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity
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When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything
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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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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue
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Theology is only thought applied to religion
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A room without books is like a body without a soul
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody? by
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