"The grace of God is courtesy."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

God, Truth, People, Idea

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

Writing

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

Travel

"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."

Man

"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Friendship

"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."

Money

"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."

Friendship

"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

Travel

"Money gives me pleasure all the time."

Money

"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."

Work

"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."

Soul