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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
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.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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