Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
home
In the city set upon slime and loam, They cry in their Parliament, Who goes home? And there comes no answer in arch or dome, For none in the city of graves goes home. Yet these shall perish and understand, For God has pity on this great land.
Men that are men again: Who goes home? Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home? For there's blood on the grass and blood on the foam, And blood on the body, when Man comes home. And a voice valedictory: Who is for victory? Who is for liberty? Who goes home?
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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
tests man family
experience
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
age
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
society education
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.
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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
character
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
occupations man
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
man
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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