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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse tha

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton

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What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. – G.K. Chesterton

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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Originality is the art of concealing your source. – Franklin P. Jones

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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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