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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
4.3 · 33 votes · 185 reads
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Defects
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
3.8 · 26 votes · 174 reads
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
4.2 · 19 votes · 173 reads
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Defects
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
4.2 · 25 votes · 198 reads
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Nature
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
4.5 · 63 votes · 170 reads
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Virtues
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that
4.4 · 45 votes · 184 reads
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Thought and Reason
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
4.7 · 63 votes · 27 reads
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Government and Politics
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
4.9 · 30 votes · 16 reads
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Thought and Reason
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
4.8 · 8 votes · 30 reads
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Various
Your next-door neighbour is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
4.4 · 18 votes · 87 reads
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Time
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.
4.7 · 59 votes · 52 reads
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