The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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