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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Darkness Fact Simple
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
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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Entirely Men School Stake
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.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real

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