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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

G. K. Chesterton

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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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Education Man School Time
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People

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