One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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