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. CHESTERTONA 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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