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G K Chesterton
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.
Source:...
Women prefer to...
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Source: In...
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...
A teacher who...
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Source: In...
A large section...
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Source:...
The cosmos is...
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Source:...
When you break...
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small...
Courage is getting...
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Experience which was...
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
A yawn is...
A yawn is a silent shout.
Source: In
Reason is itself...
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any realtion to reality at...
A puritan is...
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Men always talk...
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself;...