These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTONTradition 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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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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 most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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