The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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