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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
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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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
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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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship

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