A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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