The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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