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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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Gilbert K. Chesterton Wish Property May

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Success Best Advice

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Marriage Adventure Going

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.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Good Son Mother

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Lost Way Realize

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Golf Way Expensive

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?

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Time Children God

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Words World Rich

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Teaching Who Dogmatic

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Gratitude Thankful Thought

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.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Life Time Happy

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Support Woman Intuition

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Freedom Man Free

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Art Sunset Great

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Planning Acting Right

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Love Theory Affair

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Happiness Mystery Never

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Man Good Man Grandmother

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton People Know You

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Agriculture Situation True

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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Gilbert K. Chesterton Wisdom Man Men

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.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Great Power Man

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.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Art Long Perfect

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Politics Better Truth Is

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton Want Matters You

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

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Life Man Little

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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Gilbert K. Chesterton Strong Live Die

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Good Alone Man

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Mind Body Trying

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Tourist See Come

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Mother Think Saying

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Morality Drawing Somewhere

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Beautiful Most Beautiful

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Democracy Walking Giving

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

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Gilbert K. Chesterton People Seriously Danger

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Society Soul Generation

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Purpose People Common

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Silent Cheese Been

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Metaphor Slang

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton Women Talk While
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