It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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