Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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