The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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