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| But the souls of Christian peoples . . . / Chuck it, Smith! | | Uncategorized | |
| But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his tea Or crack a bottle of fish sauce Or stand a man to cheese? Gilbert K | | Uncategorized | |
| Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools. | | Uncategorized | |
| Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. | | Uncategorized | |
| Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. | | Adulthood; Children | |
| Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. | | Compromise | |
| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. | | Courage | |
| Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. | | Courage | |
| Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. | | Cruelty | |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. | | Aristocracy; Democracy | |
| Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. | | Uncategorized | |
| Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, / And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. | | Uncategorized | |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. | | Education | |
| Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know. | | Uncategorized | |
| Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. | | Education | |
| Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every politician is emphatically a promising politician. | | Uncategorized | |
