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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
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 more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Birthday Book Writing
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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