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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Entirely Men School Stake
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
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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Men Secret Sublime
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open

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