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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
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
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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
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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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Life Men Principles
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

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