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Best Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
- You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
- To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
- To be simple is the best thing in the world.
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
- Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we…
- If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not…
- Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
- The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
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- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
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