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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
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
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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

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