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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

G. K. Chesterton

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
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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.
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Education Man School Time
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk

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