He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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Men of science offer us health an obvious benefit it is only afterwards that we discover that by health they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.
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The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
- G.K. Chesterton