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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dark Flower Sky
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.
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Life Men Principles
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Darkness Fact Simple
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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