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Results of search for Author: G. K. Chesterton - Page 2 of 4
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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G.K. Chesterton
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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G.K. Chesterton

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

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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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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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G.K. Chesterton

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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