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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

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Doubt Men
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Accepting Doctrine Miracle
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
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country Earth Rich Scum
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
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boy Men Son Unsullied
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Goes Intelligent Trying
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
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. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Government Necessity Ugly
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Minded Open
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Knowledge Star
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Animal Sacrifice Worship
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doctrine Sin Year
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance