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.
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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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