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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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