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Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

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Ronald Knox

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Dignity, Funny, Man, Men, Theologian
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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there. '

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He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

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It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

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Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

Lord, Matter, Queens, Think, Thinking, Victoria
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