When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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