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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton