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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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