Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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