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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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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Education Man School Time
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes 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

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