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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G. K. Chesterton

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun

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