Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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