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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... |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. |
(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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| Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution |
(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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| The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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| It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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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. |
(G. K. Chesterton)
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