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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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 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
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
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 more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot

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