There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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