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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
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
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason

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