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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

G. K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
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 past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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

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