Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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