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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

G. K. Chesterton

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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