I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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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.Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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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.
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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