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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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