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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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