Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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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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