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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

G. K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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