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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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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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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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