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G K Chesterton
The first of...
The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting.
Source: In...
The noble temptation...
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
We make our...
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
There is nothing...
There is nothing that fails like success.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
We think for...
We think for a General to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to...
The traveler sees...
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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The sane man...
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the...
You cannot love...
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Source: In
How you think...
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Source:...
Wit is a...
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
There is a...
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to...
There are no...
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Source: In Webster's...
There is nothing...
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal...
One of the...
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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Women prefer to...
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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When we were...
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to...
There is no...
There is no skeptic who does not feel that men have doubted before, but no man in love thinks that anyone has been in...
Mr Shaw is...
Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry.
To love means...
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the...
Being contented ought...
Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not...