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All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
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
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
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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