I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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