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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
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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Life Men Principles
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
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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