Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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