A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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