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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doctrine Sin Year
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Courage Day Strong Veteran
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
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
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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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Church Need Thinking
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Appreciation Gratitude Thank
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
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
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

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