Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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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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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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