When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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