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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
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
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
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
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
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Believe Country Government People
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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