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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
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
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
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
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
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal

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