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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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