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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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