God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The past is not what it was.
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