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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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.
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Adventure Doubt Men
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Secret Sublime
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
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
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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Life Men Principles
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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