The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONHumor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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 is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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