Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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