The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTONHumor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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