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People 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
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
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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.
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Darkness Fact Simple
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
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick

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