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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

G. K. Chesterton

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
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity

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