Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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