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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

G. K. Chesterton

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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
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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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset

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