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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.

G. K. Chesterton

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
[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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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See

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 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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