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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

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
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
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
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.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Existence God Refuse Worship
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
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 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
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Man Understand Window World 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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