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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Believe Country Government People
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Half Literature Mean
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real

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