Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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