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All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
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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Half Literature Mean
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin

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