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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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The moderns do not realize modernity.

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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

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