The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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 evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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