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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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