Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog he is the noise of a pianola he is a dispute about a party wall he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.G. K. Chesterton
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.
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The modern world . . . has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
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It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver.
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A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means.
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