Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The past is not what it was.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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 really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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