There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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