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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
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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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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