Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over.. Is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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The only defensible war is a war of defense.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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The great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction.. For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
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Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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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.
No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. In similar style, I hold that I am dogmatic and right, while Mr. Shaw is dogmatic and wrong.
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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