To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
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A good civilization spreads over us like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.
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