When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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