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All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country People Regard Riddle
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Men Sorry
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Mass Reckless
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Grateful Gratitude Life Live
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Modern Silence Tyranny
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Fear People
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Funny Inspirational Travel
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Doubt Men
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable

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