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[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. Chesterton

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious

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