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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
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
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
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
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
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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