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G K Chesterton
One sees great...
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
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Tolerance is the...
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Source:
-- G K...
The gallows in...
The gallows in my garden, people say,
Is new and neat and adequately tall.
The worst of...
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
People generally quarrel...
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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-- G K Chesterton,...
The right kind...
The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no...
Truths turn into...
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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-- G K...
In matters of...
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you...
To be simple...
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being...
The present condition...
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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-- G K Chesterton,...
What a glorious...
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to...
It isn't that...
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
The Nothing scrawled...
The Nothing scrawled on a five-foot page.
Source: A Song of Defeat
-- G K...
To have a...
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Just the other...
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three...
Without education, we...
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people...
You can only...
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
The true object...
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
If a thing...
If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly.
Source: What's Wrong with the...
Angels can fly...
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Source: 'Orthodoxy'
-- G K...