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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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