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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
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
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
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Believe Country Government People
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
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
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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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

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