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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apologetic Arguing Men
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
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
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Mass Reckless
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 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
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boy Men Son Unsullied
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Integrity Men
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Birthday Book Writing
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

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