The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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