Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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