An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll 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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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