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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. | G.K. Chesterton |
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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. | G.K. Chesterton |
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. | G.K. Chesterton |
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. | G.K. Chesterton |
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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. | G.K. Chesterton |
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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. | G.K. Chesterton |
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The main fact about education is that there is no such thing. Education is a word like ‘transmission’ or ‘inheritance’, it is not an object, but a method. | G.K. Chesterton |
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The only simplicity that matters is the simplicity of the heart. | G.K. Chesterton |
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. | G.K. Chesterton |
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There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people. | G.K. Chesterton |
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. | G.K. Chesterton |
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To he clear enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. | G.K. Chesterton |
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True contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. | G.K. Chesterton |
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We do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws. | G.K. Chesterton |
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. | G.K. Chesterton |
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