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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

G. K. Chesterton

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
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
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand

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