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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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