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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Integrity Men
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal

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