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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Knowledge Star
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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Apology Integrity Men
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Fear People
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
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
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
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
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense