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All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Cleanliness Essential Next
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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
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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Catholic Discipline Wall
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
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
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot

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