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A yawn is a silent shout.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Gilbert 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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