"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?"
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.“
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."
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"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
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