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G K Chesterton: Their is a...

G K Chesterton: Their is a...

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

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G K Chesterton: Evil comes at...

G K Chesterton: Evil comes at...

Evil comes at leisure like the disease; good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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G K Chesterton: Merrily taking twopenny...

G K Chesterton: Merrily taking twopenny...

Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife;
But these were luxuries not for him who went for the...

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G K Chesterton: Before the Roman...

G K Chesterton: Before the Roman...

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English...

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G K Chesterton: I tell you...

G K Chesterton: I tell you...

I tell you naught for your comfort,
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the...

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G K Chesterton: No one can...

G K Chesterton: No one can...

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and...

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G K Chesterton: A building is...

G K Chesterton: A building is...

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a...

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G K Chesterton: If an angel...

G K Chesterton: If an angel...

If an angel out of heaven
Brings you other things to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour...

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Douglas Coupland: Brain research tells...

Douglas Coupland: Brain research tells...

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty...

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S J Perelman: I'll dispose of...

S J Perelman: I'll dispose of...

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by...

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E B White: Shocking writing is...

E B White: Shocking writing is...

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and...

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E M Forster: Think before you...

E M Forster: Think before you...

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think creation's.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Some facts should...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Some facts should...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating...

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George Moore: Remorse is beholding...

George Moore: Remorse is beholding...

Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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G K Chesterton: The word good...

G K Chesterton: The word good...

The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards,...

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G K Chesterton: If a thing...

G K Chesterton: If a thing...

If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly.

Source: What's Wrong with the...

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G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of...

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G K Chesterton: If prosperity is...

G K Chesterton: If prosperity is...

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of...

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Mark Twain: When you ascend...

Mark Twain: When you ascend...

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Source:
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Mark Twain: [He was] a...

Mark Twain: [He was] a...

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the...

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