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

G. K. Chesterton

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
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way

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