[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.
G. K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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