Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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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.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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