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

G. K. Chesterton

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
[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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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
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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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking

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