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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.

G. K. Chesterton

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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
[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.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water

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