Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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