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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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 great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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