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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Cleanliness Essential Next
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 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.
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Error Final Human
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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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Eye Spring Story Sunset
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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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