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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
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
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal

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