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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
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
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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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Clever Men Stupid
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
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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Artist Wisdom Wise
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
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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Ancient Pride Unfreese
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
One 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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Love Trust Way World
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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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Art Brain Spiritual
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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Courage Day Strong Veteran