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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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.
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Adventure Doubt Men
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
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Church Need Thinking
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Cleanliness Essential Next
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
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
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
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
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
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
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
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
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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Bath Believe Practice
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
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
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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