Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he who get the most out of life.
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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.G. K. Chesterton
The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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'There was no star that I forgot to fear
With love and wonder.
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The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.
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The Museum is not meant for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. . .
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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