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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
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
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
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 is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
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
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
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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