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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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It has always been believed that there is something called destiny, but it has also always been believed that there is another thing called free will. What qualifies a man is the balance of that contradiction.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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If something is truly worth doing, it's worth doing at all costs.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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There is something that gives splendor to everything that exists, and it is the illusion of finding something around the corner.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Mediocrity, possibly, consists of being in front of greatness and not realizing it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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There are women who love their husbands so much that, in order not to use them, they take their friends'.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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For every kind of trouble there are two remedies: time and silence.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Everything fits in the brief. Small is the child and contains the man; narrow is the brain and shelters the thought; the eye is no more than a point and spans leagues.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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The good is slow because it goes uphill. The evil is fast because it goes downhill.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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We believe, above all because it is easier to believe than to doubt, and also because faith is the sister of hope and charity.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Mothers always forgive: they have come into the world for that.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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A man is born without teeth, without hair, and without illusions. And he dies the same way: without teeth, without hair, and without illusions.