The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.Gilbert K. Chesterton
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
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