Tag: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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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 treachery to comrades.

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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 solid.

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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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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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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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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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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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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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