A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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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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Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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