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> [“Even the common things he carried with him—the food and the brandy and the loaded pistol—took on exactly that concrete and material poetry which a child feels when he takes a gun upon a journey or a bun with him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/even-the-common-things-he-carried-with-him-the-food-and-the-brandy/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

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## More by G. K. Chesterton

> [“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/it-s-just-because-i-have-picked-a-little-about-mystics-that-i-have-no/)

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> [“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/the-history-of-the-thing-might-amuse-you-he-said-when-first-i-became/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/an-inconvenience-is-only-an-adventure-wrongly-considered-an-adventure/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“Satan fell by the force of gravity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/satan-fell-by-the-force-of-gravity/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/in-every-society-the-rich-are-the-scum-of-the-earth/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/people-who-lose-all-their-charity-generally-lose-all-their-logic/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/modesty-has-moved-from-the-organ-of-ambition-modesty-has-settled-upon/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, 'that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/i-mean-he-said-with-increasing-vehemence-that-if-there-be-a-house-for/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/but-how-will-you-bear-an-absentminded-man-who-if-he-happens-to-see/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/the-world-will-never-be-safe-for-democracy-it-is-a-dangerous-trade/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/the-most-sacred-thing-is-to-be-able-to-shut-your-own-door/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“I was suddenly possessed with the idea that the blind, blank back of his head really was his face—an awful, eyeless face staring at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/i-was-suddenly-possessed-with-the-idea-that-the-blind-blank-back-of/)

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> [“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/but-the-reason-we-fly-from-the-city-is-not-in-reality-that-it-is-not/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/if-you-try-to-talk-about-a-truth-that-s-merely-moral-people-always/)

[G. K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton-2/)

> [“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton-2/let-me-take-once-again-a-rough-parable-suppose-i-advertised-in-the/)

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