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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
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
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
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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
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
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible

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