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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
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
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
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel

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