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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 crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Crow Duality Thorn
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Government Necessity Ugly
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Goes Intelligent Trying
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Order Running
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Animal Sacrifice Worship
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Eye Spring Story Sunset
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Knowledge Star
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Common Faith Inspiration Sense
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
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
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Cleanliness Essential Next
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