The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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 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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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