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G K Chesterton
A good novel...
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its...
Carlyle said that...
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all...
Literature has always...
Literature has always been allegorical.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Charity is the...
Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in...
We ought to...
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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Adventure is the...
Adventure is the champagne of life.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
There is one...
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the...
Merely having an...
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on...
As enunciated today,...
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...
It is at...
It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something...
Children are innocent...
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
A man who...
A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.
Nonsense is a...
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
Source: In...
You shouldn't take...
You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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It is the...
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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Fable is more...
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million...
Materialists and madmen...
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The most wonderful...
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
Source: In...
I believe in...
I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
Source: In The...
Marriage is an...
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...