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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boy Men Son Unsullied
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Government Necessity Ugly
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Truth Understand
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Cleanliness Essential Next
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Matter Want Writing
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Common Faith Inspiration Sense
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
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
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Clever Men Stupid