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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
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
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
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
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Feeling Greatness Man Reality
[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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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

Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman

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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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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