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T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.


If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.


The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.


All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.


Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.


Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.


Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.


Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.


Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.


Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

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