It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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