There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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