Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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