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- Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not…
- The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many…
- Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough…
- Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless…
- A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
- A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that…
- They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals…
- The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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