Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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