Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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