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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Doubt Men
The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Gratitude Test
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Love Trust Way World
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
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country People Regard Riddle
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Appreciation Gratitude Thank
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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
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
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn