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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.

G. K. Chesterton

We 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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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
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
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself

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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