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Gilbert K Chesterton
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.
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Gilbert K Chesterton quote-Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. ...
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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Charles Dickens:
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
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Charles Dickens:
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
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Charles Dickens:
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
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Charles Dickens:
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
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Charles Dickens:
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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!
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Michael Palin:
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The use of the word 'just' by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in 'Just pull that sword out of the stone' or 'Just split that atom'.
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Henry B Adams:
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
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There are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe. ... We think that for a general about to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy. We think the question is not whether the theory of the cosmos affects matters, but whether in the long run, anything else affects them.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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