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Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something"
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
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"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one,"
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"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be"
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"There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is"
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"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up."
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"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is t"
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"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
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"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely re"
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
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"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not m"
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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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