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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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