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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

G. K. Chesterton

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship

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