An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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