Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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