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G K Chesterton
Gullibility is the...
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the...
Poets have been...
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Source: In Webster's...
The poetry of...
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love...
A man does...
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Silence is the...
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
It is not...
It is not the man of pleasure who has pleasure; it is not the man of the world who appreciates the world. ... It is...
The doctrine of...
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is...
To say that...
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
Source: In...
Do not free...
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
The prophet and...
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong...
Spring never is...
Spring never is Spring unless it comes too soon.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The man who...
The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a...
You could compile...
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the...
I regard golf...
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Source: In Webster's...
To be simple...
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being...
The Bible tells...
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same...
The mind that...
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's, but the mind that never finds its way back is the...
Truth must necessarily...
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial...
The successful businessman...
The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by...
Tradition does not...
Tradition does not mean the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
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