The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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