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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Half Literature Mean
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
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
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

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