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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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
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
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
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
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.
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