The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Quote by GK Chesterton
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.