The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.Gilbert K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
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