Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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