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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G. K. Chesterton

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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