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All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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Church Need Thinking
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
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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Matter Want Writing
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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Ancient Pride Unfreese
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
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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Clever Men Stupid
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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Error Final Human
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying

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