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

G. K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset

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