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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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When 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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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