When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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