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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

G. K. Chesterton

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
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
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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
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
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
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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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
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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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk

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