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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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