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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Truth Understand
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
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
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
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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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Artist Wisdom Wise
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
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

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