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There are some desires that are not desirable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
I 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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Bath Believe Practice
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
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
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
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test

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