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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Affair Love Religion Theory
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Champion Enemy Evil Man
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Happiness Marriage Struggle
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Existence God Refuse Worship
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Absence Aware Mindset Presence
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Audience People Right Wrong
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution Yourself
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Business Difference Ideal State System

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