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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
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
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
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.
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Adventure Doubt Men
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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Artist Wisdom Wise
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
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
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
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

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