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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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

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