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There 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Orthodoxy Sin
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Appearance Dog Gone
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Integrity Men
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Knowledge Star
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Common Firsts Sense
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Bath Believe Practice
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Church Need Thinking
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Courage Day Strong Veteran
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Impose Philosophy Telephone
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Crow Duality Thorn
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country Earth Rich Scum
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Love Trust Way World