No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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