Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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