When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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