All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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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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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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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.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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