The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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 crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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