A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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 is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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