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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

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
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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Christian Order Running
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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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Catholic Glasses Wine
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Believe Country Government People
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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Entirely Men School Stake
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
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
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
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying