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”.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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