One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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