The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The past is not what it was.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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