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Both Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not…
- Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;…
- 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…
- Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in…
- There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
- A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
- There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
- Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace…
- Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
- The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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