The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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