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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
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
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
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
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
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
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
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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Eye Spring Story Sunset
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
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

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