All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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