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Quotes by G. K. Chesterton

"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals..."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
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""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.""
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution"
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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
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"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
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"A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it."
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
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"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
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"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
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"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
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"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
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"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
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"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."
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"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried."
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"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
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"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
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