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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Believe Country Government People
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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
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.
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Error Final Human
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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