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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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