I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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 elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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