When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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