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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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